The First BBC Televised Grand National 1960 - Merryman II
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- ....the first televised BBC Grand National.....and Merryman trained by Neville Crump obliges with future GN starter Gerry Scott in the saddle...26 ran...
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Two great commentating Peters, Bromley and O’Sullevan. What a pleasure to listen to them working together.
I was born a few weeks after this. My earliest memory of the national was when Highland Wedding won.
Toby Balding was the trainer if i recall
The camera man on top of the car is classic. My first memory of the National is Team Spirit, winning in 1964. Didn't realise how many previous failed attempts.
Fascinating! So funny to see the fairground there...can't imagine that now! :)
The winner won the Foxhunters at Aintree the previous year under the Farming Legend that was
CHARLES SCOTT - KING OF KELSO RAM SALES
I met Charles approx 13 years ago and on a visit to his home i spotted the photographs in black and white of a steeplechase.
Knowing nothing of his history i enquired as to the photos and when Charles nonchalantly it was of him winning the Foxhunters at Aintree on Merryman II the hair's on the back of my neck stood
What a talented pleasant and talented human CHARLES SCOTT is
We could be doing with a lot more like him in ALL walks of life
Thank you for sharing your story
Brian Dawson Edinburgh Scotland
Marvellous old film the first televised Grand National Gerry Scott rode with a broken collarbone all the more remarkable Neville Crump legendary Yorkshire trainer great trainer of staying chasers terrific nostalgia. x.
...."and they come to the mighty Bechers Brook"....not heard that description in a long time....
Bechers in name only in 2021. Mournful indeed.
I just refer to it as the 6th or 22nd fence now.
Fantastic to see this, Big Thanks chatham43.
..thanks Ian...I've uploaded all the other BBC televised 60's Nationals if you're interested...
chatham43 great stuff, for me the National has always been the biggest sporting event of any year and to be able to view as many as is possible nowadays is fantastic thanks.
Peter O’Sullivan and Peter Bromley 👍🏻 class act
At around 3.15 you can see what must be the Blue Anchor pub before they built in front of it. A few years ago I used to cycle through the Melling Road and over the Anchor Bridge on my way home from work. One night the gates were open so I walked down to look at the 27th fence, which was enormous (you could plant a tent in the ditch). It's probably a replica of the 3rd fence. These days little chance to view the big fences close up.
.....back then those fences were really formidable....not so much today alas....
What an amazing sit by the jockey at the back of the field first time at Becher's.
6:28 A long way back a spectacular fall
The incident 2nd time at Bechers with a jockey going head first into the ditch minus one horse is classic.
I loved that second time over Bechers Brook spill. That sort of spectacle made the old Nationals edge of the seat and exciting viewing. As long as the fallers walk away unscathed, I must admit those incidents add to the race's thrill
@@levisjeans1901 thats why modern sport today is mostly rubbish money and health and safety are the only things that matter jockeys footballers etc earnt a pittance in those days and risks were taken leading to memorable nationals etc
Thats David Nicholson - some will remember him later as a trainer
Also nice to see the old Grand Prix circuit. Still in use when this race was run.
6:42 Once dangled with my arse stuck up in the air and my head over the other side of an owl hole fence during cross country and I swear to God I must have been there a good solid half a minute and was actually shouted at over the tannoy to leave the course immediately.
Not a soul making any attempt to help me I got so cross and shouted back at tannoy man "YES I KNOW!!! I'M STUCK YOU BELL-END!!!"
WOAH. Well, I’ve got the itv closing montage from 59 years later.
Hardly a moment's worry the televised national
How different the fences were then. Bolt upright and not nearly as much dressing. I believe the next year was the first modification of any significance for a long time, but they still had the timber core which has now been replaced with a more forgiving material.
I have asked Aintree what analysis they did of the old cores with extra padding - no response. I also asked if they eased some of the fences, drops and height why they couldn't compensate with increasing them elsewhere so while a safer race it was not less challenging - no response. Maybe this would support a home bred industry producing big strapping chasers better
Peter Bromley great voice
Bellsize II's death on no. 20 must be one of the most careless acts of a jockey in the history of the race (6:28)
Except that's not Belsize II. That's Skipper Jack, who was rapidly outpaced after jumping the water and who stayed on the ground when he fell because he was exhausted. It's common to see this with last fence fallers but very unusual so early on the second circuit, but the rapidity with which he lost touch with the field should have sent huge warnings to the jockey to pull him up. Belsize II was one of those unfortunate accidents that would have happened no matter how much they modify the fences. He refused at the chair [not caught in the BBC footage] and is rider was sent flying over the fence. Alas Belsize II decided to go for a run by itself and met with an accident while running loose.
Yeah I thought Skipper Jack's jockey was ridiculous in keeping the horse running, a full fence behind and clearly out of it, disgusting. How good was Merryman ll to dominate so much as a favourite.
@@andycarmichael3012 Jockey Dan O'Donovan was reprimanded by the stewards after the race, though exactly what form this took, other than being verbally told off isn't mentioned in the press. Also, to correct something I said in a previous comment, Belsize didn't run loose, he seems to have attempted to jump the Chair from a standing start, while riderless, and landed in the ditch, breaking a leg.
@@TheGiantKillers it's one of those things that's beyond anyone's control when the loose horses get injured in such a way, you go back over the years and you'll see it 20 or 30 times where something similar has happened. I sometimes used to prefer the gaps in the running rails but then you had horses collapsing with exhaustion!
@@TheGiantKillers Good knowledge. I suspect O'Donovan's mantra was "Pulling up is for wimps."
nicholson flying over bechers after cannobie lee refuses, the same partnership did the same in 59 stopping a fair few
Merryman II set off at odds of 13-2 and lived up to advance billing
id rather have a go on the merry go round than watch a modern day national
...38/40 complete a circuit this year...a record...?
@@chatham43 May as well run the race at Ludlow now and call it the Randox Health Chase!
Hi there I was wondering how you came about getting this footage? I recently interviewed Mr Scott and was hoping to get a little clip like this to add to the interview edit. I would be very grateful if you could help me have access to a little bit of this clip. Thanks.
..ripped off a Racing UK DVD someone sent me a while back...have you tried downloading and using editing software..?
Rider rode with a broken collarbone Gerry Scott went on to be a starter
What happened to Team Spirit, did he go at Becher's too?
...yep....he unseated Willie Robinson at Bechers second time....
Collided with cannobie lee
Were any races on the original mildmay course with scaled down national fences ever broadcast and do you have any footage?
...good question..no I don't....they were certainly broadcast but whether the BBC has any archived is anyone' s guess...sorry....
Looks like the camera man was in need of security improvements. 😄
Belsize II was killed in that race, but was never mentioned in the entire commentary - must have gone very early on.
He is the one falling at the 20th in the distance when well tailed off. Disgraceful from the jockey, I hope the horse's owners murdered him afterwards.
@@keithwellerlounge74 I put it on again and I could just see the horse fall in the corner of the screen. The commentators never mentioned him and implied that Irish Coffee was the back-marker.
Also, I think Arles and Skatealong might have finished as well as the six that were mentioned; I could see two more horses going round the final bend.
@@keithwellerlounge74 skipper Jack f20 not a fatility Belize injured himself running loose
@@daviddawber1111 Belize refused at the chair theres a photo of it his jockey flys over the chair he runs loose and injures himself team spirit mentioned once at f3 in the 63 race how o sullevan mixed them up ill never know
@@keithwellerlounge74 Torturing & traumatizing might have been a better method. Don't forget they still had hanging for murders back then.
Good national horse was Merryman, won it relatively easily. Tea Fiend gutsy attempt to make all had to settle for a place. Team Spirit in the race and old Skipper Jack. Decent race over what everyone called the big fences. This in the days when Bogside still staged the Scottish national.
I know safety is the key in 2021 but this race has been ruined. The fences are like polystyrene when the horses jump them. The fences were first altered in 1965. Since then it has been a downward spiral. Not a difficult course anymore.
What was that jockey thinking right at the back at the 6.25 mark, he murdered that poor tired horse, absolutely disgusting 😡
The horse in question was skipper Jack no mention of him being a fatiliry
The horse was Belsize ll and yes he was a fatality
@@richardadams5174 No Its Skipper Jack falling at the 20th. He wasnt a fatality.
@@teenoso4069 sure?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_equine_fatalities_in_the_Grand_National
@@martinf213 100% certain. If you visit the Pathe news website they have retained a lot of the unused footage. The cameraman on the bank had little to do after the runners had gone off into the distance so he turned his camera on Skipper Jack. He got up after a minute or two.
this is madness
I am still mist fired why did Peter Bromley stay on the BBC TV comments and went to the BBC radio comment on for radio BBC now Radio five live
He was leaving in 1961 and a BBC sports exec told him to stick around as the main man on radio because "O'Sullevan can't go on forever."
@@TheGiantKillers OK but Peter O Suvillan stayed on the BBC
Couldn't decide on either Irish coffee or tea fiend
Irish coffees jockey was 60 years old
Interesting. That would put him born c 1900. Around the same time as Tim Durrant