Red Rum wins his 3rd Grand National 1977 FULL RACE.avi

[dunsta69]

9/1 - how does that work out? Looked like every single person at the track backed him !

[whichypoohs]

....and among the glory is the "gore" the death of a horse which ran, ran and ran until he could run no more: how sad to see Sebastian RUN TO DEATH

[brendonsirs]

No matter how many times i watch this, i get goose bumps and tears in my eyes. Not only is Red Rum the greatest jump horse ever, but Peter O'sullivans commentary is spellbinding. I think Tommy Stack should have got more credit for how he rode Red Rum, as he let Boom Docker and Andy Pandy run off but he just stuck to his game plan. I think Red Rum's 3 Grand National wins is the greatest EVER sporting achievment.

[ddiggins79]

for some reason i always thought this was red rums luckiest national win. watching it again, he finished so strong i think he would have beaten any of the horses that fell had they stayed up. if that makes any sense...

[Ksha73]

What a champion Crisp was. He carried 23 pounds more than Red Rum, made all the running and was just caught in the last little bit. The greatest Australian jumper ever!

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@Ksha73

no doubt but remember he was so far clear of the field -- it must be very difficult for horse or rider to judge the pace. He was, in my opinion, the best that day -- just got a little tired at the elbow. But you do have to give Rum a hand as he just kept after what looked like a lost cause. I mean Crisp was so far in front ( probably going too fast )

Both great horses.

[notdrivingaminimetro]

amazing

[ZenyattaLuvr]

whoa. not used to 10 min races... and all the horses falling in one race... but Red Rum defiatly proved hes the strongest of them all

[Aron1234aron]

Boom Docker " yeea i have led for long enough you take over from here"

[hammerofmarjons]

just tears when he wins, what a bloody horse.......... Saved the National

Forever remembered

The King of chasers.........Long live the King

[Flemoipad]

Wow. What memories this has for me. I grew up on Aintree Lane and could see the course from my bedroom window. I was eleven years old and I remembered that day so clearly. I was honoured to meet Rummy twice and they are memories I will treasure forever. RIP Ginger.

[Laytonia1977]

The best finishing commentary to a race, ever; FACT :)

[lilyjetandmilly]

can i please use some of this video for a a vid im making will give credit to you and will sub

[greeny0370]

CAN SOMEONE DIG OUT THE 1974 GRAND NATIONAL PLEASE

[GillB49]

I was 19 when Rummy won this and didn't tend to get excited or emotional over any sporting event but I watched this with my Dad and was screaming, crying and thumping the floor in excitement! Magnificent. I honestly don't believe any horse will ever better his achievement in this race.

[Jadervason]

This seems like a really dangerous event. hard to believe someone cares about their horse entering them in this madness. Not as bad as a rodeo I guess

[burnleyfan11965]

@Jadervason its a lot different now the fences are much easier though sadly two horses died this year,the same number as the 1977 race you are watching,but in general its a lot different these days

[jimmygletherow1]

r.i p ginger mc cann to you and rummy the greatest combination ever there we will never see your kind again ......ever

[DLPBurke]

Never hear a cheer like that for a horse again...

[ASupremeOwl]

What a horse this fella was, To win the Grand National off top weight is something but to win it twice off top weight and run so competetively for 5 years in the National is something else. A credit to the great man Ginger McCain. We will never see another like Rummy again, Of that I am certain..

[guyko21]

Has to be the greatest piece of horse-racing commentary ever. Peter O'Sullivan and Red Rum, what a legendary combination.

[samoyedfan]

RIP Ginger, you will be missed :)

[greeny0370]

R.I.P Ginger McCain you blessed us with your magic and your straight talking no nonsense. You saved Aintree with Red Rum. p,s put a tenner on rummy in the Heaven grand national. you are BOTH LEGENDS..

[grincher2006]

"whatever happened to all the heroes?" - Apt line from a 1977 album. RIP Rummy and Ginger.

[MercifulZeus]

RIP Ginger.

[ashesbash]

I had never seen this before, but the hairs on the back of my neck stood up as I watched the end

[WallingtonNick]

RIP.... Donald 'Ginger' McCain 1930-2011

[raekiesha]

RIP Ginger - you allowed this horse to fully express himself - you built a dynasty and a legend that will never be bettered - now the PC brigade has watered down what was the greatest race in the world. Hope you & Rummy are now back together - plotting another win in heaven !

[Krzyszczynski]

Notice on the run-in, how the other riders are whipping away at their mounts, but good ol' Rummy needs no such encouragement. Tommy Stack has both hands on his bridle the whole way.

[raekiesha]

These dick-head animals right do-gooders and health & safety arseholes - thank god - will never be able to take away the legend of Red Rum - what he did and what he achieved. So, fuck you - all you wrap animals up in cotton wool activists - Red Rum was the best & toughest horse over the best & toughest fences in the best & toughest race in the world and you animal rights cunts will never be able to change that !

[DLPBurke]

@raekiesha HERE HERE!

[grincher2006]

Today they have announced a reduction in the size of bechers and other modifications. Grand National RIP

[DrivenUpTheWall1]

Redrum was the dude !

[ilovemyjazzy1]

am i the only one noticing all the riderless horses running the race? lol

[ASimpleSomething]

'...they're willing him home now' His home was and always will be the winner's circle..

Rummy was a true legend, the likes of which I doubt we will ever come close to seeing again.

[maoutsaou]

The part that slays even my cold american heart is the bit where the fella calling the end of the race mentions that the TWELVE year old is about to win his 3rd.

Twelve years old... and that was three wins and two second place finishes in five years if I recall.

My what a horse!

[maoutsaou]

Oops! The announcer mentions his record at the very end... I'z too teared up too notice the first time around.

[comeonshaymen]

Me thinks that Boomdocker was trying to emulate the mighty Crisp

[markbailey1970]

Makes me cry every time

[WELLBRAN]

A horse that knew exactly what he was doing, keeping calm when all around is mayhem pacing himself, and reading his own race, intelligent horse, and I think he had a big ego, he was a sports superstar.

[Gagsy10]

If this doesn't get you in the Grand National mood, I don't know what else could.

[rc2869]

Arkle and Shergar may have been better horses respectively but no horse did more for sport on TV  than this one. Serioulsy Brazil 1970, Ali in 74, Klammer 1976 and Red Rum in 1973-7 brought sport to life in UK (and Ireland). Legend,

[somersetfan1]

highlight and nadir of Grand National history. Highlight because of Red Rum and nadir because the fences were at their most unforgiving

[grincher2006]

@somersetfan1 early 1950s I would say were the stiffest

[grincher2006]

@somersetfan1 I would say the 1950s were stiffer. It varies according to ground and when fences are periodically rebuilt. Some fences jumper bigger. Currently fences 2 and 4 are jumping bigger than you would expect and I can remember parts of the 1960s and 80s when the fences seemed "soft"

[mgbuk]

Such great memories, not only as a 13 year old lad with 50p to win on the great horse but hearing PO'S calling him home "Red Rum preceded only by loose horses". In those days for those of you who didn't live then he was a real hero, moreso in the UK than Ali ...

[vania1013]

pure magic 

[SlotraceDK]

Damn, when Red Rum takes lead you just want to shout:"Go on Red Rum!!!"

This is great!!

[littlebay75]

watched this at my grandparents on my 14th birthday, it was the only time my birthday fell on grand national day, wonderful horse great memories :}

[tropicanataste]

Everytime I drink just a little too much, I watch this video and remember my childhood. Makes tears bubble in my eyes for a now distant past and a much simpler time. I wish I could go back there and cheer for Red Rum and, even more, I wish I could see my dad again, who's gone now, but used to send me to bookies to place a bet for him and let me keep the change for a Mars Bar.

Good Times.

[25yearsgone]

@tropicanataste ...you have ..WORD FOR WORD echoed my sentiments...thet is just how i feel ...thank you

[alipitogen]

Was 74 Rummy's best National? Maybe but there are some things to consider about 77 before that conclusion is drawn. How many twelve year olds have won the National?; and how many in this style?; Boom Docker and Andy Pandy had commanding leads so would he have caught them if they had stayed in the race? I see a clue to that unanswerable question in RR's gallop up the run-in. It is doubtful BD and AP would have stayed going as well -the biggest clue to that is 1973. If he caught Crisp.....

[w1239345]

Has ever a jockey crashed, got up and won this race?

[Foinavon67]

@w1239345 Not to my knowledge. Remounters have been 3rd and 4th in recent years, and my namesake won in 1967 when he was the only horse to avoid a pile up at the 23rd fence.

[jimmyg34567]

@w1239345 highley unlikley you cant get back on a horse after its fell

[littlebay75]

boom docker refused with a whole circuit to go , andy pandy fell with 8 fences left to jump red rum finished like a train he won fair and square

[Mascherina1964]

Hi

No disrespecting Red Rum, this was the horse's finest hour, but....

This Grand National saw its first woman jockey (Charlotte Rae). She didn't finish (that would happen in 1982), but Ms. Rae, like Red Rum, made history...

[alipitogen]

@Mascherina1964 Surely that was Charlotte Brew, unless a marriage is making us both right.

[KTWanPinkF]

Have you got the '75 or '76 nationals? I'd love to see those!

[wildandhyper]

0:57 loose horse of randomness XD

[XLadyClaireX]

Red Rum's greatest year was 1974, winning his 2nd National under 12 stone GIVING weight to a dual Cheltenham Gold Cup winner in L'Escargot and then a few week's later going onto win the Scottish National. Rummy had top weight on his back every year in the National after 1973. What a horse he was. Will never see his like again.....

[postcardterry]

@XLadyClaireX You are so right!Red Rum was truly the greatest ever! Big weights beating 40 horses and no bute or lasix.

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@XLadyClaireX

L'Ecscrgot was nothing to sneeze at. A great horse. So was Crisp. What was amazing, at least to me, was that 5 years straight 3 victories and 2 seconds. I think the only time he fell was in a hurdle race when he was 5 or 6 years old..

I know it is a dangerous race and hate to see animals get hurt, but when you watch someone like Red Rum -- its just an unbelievable high.

[turncapp]

Yes. L'Eascargot was nothing to sneeze at. He beat Rum once I believe it was the following year. Don't know for sure I was still in diapers at the time. I do know he won the first two, finished second twice, and won the final.

We don't see horses like that anymore.

[Horses4ever8]

ugh so many horses and riders fall off in this race

[bendubz1]

My dad cried when he dies :/ i think i would of hes amazing

Grand national todaay :D

[carljpgr]

" a tremendous reception..you've never heard the like of it at liverpool"...still brings a lump to your throat

[25yearsgone]

@carljpgr ... same here anda tear to my eye.... he was / IS my hero...

[DLPBurke]

@carljpgr it was an amazing reception.,

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@carljpgr

yes it does. Like when secretariat won the Belmont. Unbelievable horse. I remember the day I bought the form and read that he had died, and  really bumbed me out. But horrse or human everyone has to go eventually.

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@carljpgr

Just amazing.

I was only 6 years old when it happened. But got me addicted to horses.  Not from a horse family: they are all terrified of the gentle giants.

amazing race.

[pedrospeedski1]

What a HORSE !

[sleeplessinsale]

what the hell was peter o'sullevan playing at?? you have a horse a fence clear on the 2nd circuit who refuses at a fence and you stutter and stumble and end up not mentioning it at all ???

[burnleyfan11965]

@sleeplessinsale if Boom Docker hadnt refused im not that sure Red Rum would have caught him

[burnleyfan11965]

@sleeplessinsale if Boom Docker hadnt refused im not that sure Red Rum would have caught him

[Gagsy10]

@burnleyfan11965 Maybe, but maybe not. Considering Red Rum had top weight, you just look at the way he finishes. Always fresh like a new horse. Maybe if Boom Docker didn't refuse he would have won it, or maybe if Boom Docker didn't refuse Red Rum would have done the same as he did to Crisp in 73 and won, or maybe Boom would have gone on to fall at another fence. Either way it probably doesn't matter. I think the right horse won. We'll never see scenes like that agian. Cherish it. RIP a legend.

[Annon1100]

@burnleyfan11965

With all due respect I strongly disagree with your comment. Boom Docker had surely gone off too quickly and was taking too much out of himself. Rarely has a horse got that far ahead in a Grand National at that stage and not weakened rapidly out of comtention in the latter stages of the race. (Crisp being the only notable exception, but even he ended up being beaten). Boom Docker may have refused because he was already starting to tire.

[Annon1100]

@sleeplessinsale

I think O'Sullevan either felt the refusal was not his to comment on because it happened on John Hanmer's section, or was busy watching Barony Fort at the back and didn't see Boom Docker's refusal until after he'd handed over. His stuttering may have been the result of taking a moment or two to recall Barony Fort's name because he says "Boom... b... Barony Fort still continuing".

[boomdocker100]

@Annon1100 regarding boomdockers refusual at the 17th and the poor changeover between o sullevan and hanmer, firstly boomdocker was not enjoying himself at all, his tail being stuck up tells you this , after he jumped the water his jockey john williams said a loose horse running in the opposite direction distracted boomdocker and the horse put the brakes on, o sullevan was clearly shocked by boomdockers refusual that left him stuttering but couldnt comment because it was in hanmers section

[roadend78]

the greatest .

[myfrobert]

Very nice. More full version of Grand Nationals again! Thanks.

[dmjlj123]

red rum made that race look easy