Book description
It was the upset to end all upsets. On 8 April 1967 at Aintree racecourse in Liverpool, a 100-1 outsider in peculiar blinkers sidestepped chaos extraordinary even by the Grand National's standards and won the world's toughest steeplechase.
The jumps-racing establishment - and Gregory Peck, the Hollywood actor whose much-fancied…
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1 author picked Foinavon as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
By now you know I'm a horse lover. I also worked on the track for a decade as a groom, and I worked briefly in Ireland with steeplechase horses. They are incredible athletes, but I always held my breath when they ran, because steeplechasing is rough and tumble - literally. Some of those horses fall over jumps.
The Grand National in England is the granddaddy of steeplechases, and pretty much all hell broke loose during the running of the 1967 Grand National when Foinavon won at odds of 100-1.
I'm not giving anything away by telling you who…
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