Aintree's Grand National is the world's most famous steeplechase, watched by 100,000 spectators on the course and by millions more television viewers in their homes. It's a race that enthralls the nation every spring, a race steeped in over 160 years of heritage peppered with unforgettable names and memories.
(Reg Green, Foremost Authority on the Aintree Story The Grand National is the greatest horse race in the world and this book gives a genuinely unique behind the scenes insight to the Great Race and Aintree Racecourse and the people. We meet most of the great Irish hereos of Aintree in the last forty years such as Quare Times, Mr What. L'Escargot, Bryan Marshall, Pat Taaffe, Tommy Carberry, Tom and Jim Dreaper and Dan and Aurthur Moore to name but a few. Reg Green a Liverpudlian, like Ossie, is recognised to be the world's foremost authority on the Great Race and the Racecourse, his book published in 1988 'A Race Apart' is the most authorative reference book on them)