The race was won by
Grakle at 100/6 HE had retired from a lifetime in the public gaze only months earlier, at the 1964 General Election, and at 90 years old was in failing health.
"I look upon this re markable instance of ferocity in the
Grakle with the more amazement," Audubon wrote, "as I never observed it killing any bird when in a state of freedom."
"He was keen early on ( that's why we put the
Grakle noseband on this time, to give him every assistance.
'He was keen early on - that's why we put the
Grakle noseband on this time, to give him every assistance.
"He wore a
grakle (crossed) noseband when he did a bit of schooling with Joe (Tizzard) the other day.
Eremon was trained at Hednesford by Tom Coulthwaite, who also won the National with Jenkinstown and
Grakle and two National Hunt Chases with Conjuror II and Sir Lindsay.
I left it off today and went back to using the
grakle noseband that he wore on the Flat."
Last year's winner Easter Hero is left clear when Gib falls two out to beat the subsequent Grand National winner
Grakle by 20 lengths in the Gold Cup, but it is much closer in the Champion Hurdle, with Brown Tony getting home by only a head and a short head.
Few of the winners amounted to much in the long run, but
Grakle (1926) and E.S.B.