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David Owen

Foinavon

The Story of the Grand National†™s Biggest Upset

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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 horse was reduced to the status of an also-ran - took a dim view. But Foinavon, the dogged victor, and Susie, the white nanny goat who accompanied him everywhere, became instant celebrities. Within days, the traffic was being stopped for them in front of Buckingham Palace en route to an audience with the Duchess of Ken… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-1-4081-9221-4
  • EAN: 9781408192214
  • Produktnummer: 17012855
  • Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
  • Seitenangabe: 224 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 5'967 KB
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor


David Owen is a former sports editor of the Financial Times, covering scores of major sports events around the world for the FT and other publications in a career spanning three decades.

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