At this point they are carrying on as journalists and reporting the sporting news or history/tragedy. It's good tv views for later in the night is theyre thinking, even people who dont bet would watch it later.
@@julianholland7204 the thrill of it. Or they like the horse, trainer or jockey. I like to see Dettori win because he might do his jump from the horse at the end haha But in this instance people watch it in shock, and its also comical knowing its all gone wrong, sad but funny at the same time.
@@RESPONDI433 Interestingly, the BBC's news reporting of this year's event was more about the people, and the protests, rather than the race. They reported on it as though they'd never had anything to do with it in the first place. Typical of the current BBC.
I remember watching this with my poor old Grandad who only had a couple of weeks to live at the time. As a typical irishman he loved a good bet on the horses and he knew this was going to be the last time he saw the Grand National. I was so pissed off with them for messing it up that day!!
The starting system hadn't been changed for years and years.For a race like the Grand National with millions of viewers,you would think that they would have had a more sophisticated system.The commentators were brilliant.They knew it had to be a void race and said it a few times during the commentary but kept their professionalism
Crikey I remember this like it was yesterday! When I was a kid I was lucky enough to have visits to Red Rum's stable in Southport where my grandmother lived & Rummy had a huge liking for Polo mints & the huge 70's collar of my shirt. Ginger McCain said him nibbling my collar was lucky & sure enough I have always picked National Winners (the only time I ever bet!) This apparent luck even extended to this non race as I had £2 to win on beautiful Esha Ness! Poor Esha & rider. You were still winners to me! x
If it's any consolation for the jockey, Esha Ness gave the perfect demonstration of how to run a National. Keep out of harm's way, conserve a bit of energy while letting others do the frontrunning, then strike for home as soon as you get a clear run towards the end.
Even though this is nearly 20 years old, it is still one of the most jaw dropping incidents ever seen in British sport. The best part of the coverage is what happened in the 1/2 hour after this video stops.
@@julianholland7204 Well Peter O'Sullivan in his controlled way said the words 'what can conceivably happen next'? The BBC dispatched Richard Pitman to interview the starter who was already surrounded by other officials and a few trainers. Richard P got the starter to say that under the rules ,the nine horses left at the start could race again. In fact in would have been eight as Travel Over injured a tendon when he got the tape wrapped round his leg.This kicked the whole thing off as the trainer of Zetas Lad who had a huge chance, started threatening court action etc. Then they all disappeared to hold a stewards enquiry, queue much mirth from the crowd.
I could not agree more with your comment on the BBC coverage. This is the first time I have seen the race since then and the situation still comes across as unbelievable.
Before they started pulling up on the second circuit, I think there were only 3 fallers. Still got my £1 each way betting slip on Esha from a bookies that no longer exists.
When you watch them trying to get in a line stood in front of that sagging piece of tape that barely came up to the horses girth you wonder why nobody ever thought that it might just need replacing...
The Race that never was that Year, I Remember it very well, it was an Absolute Shambles, the Starter had be escorted off the Race Course as he was about to be linched by angry spectators
Probably the main thing that contributed to this debacle was Captain Keith Brown saying "come on" before he had got the tape up!!! If he was a captain in the army he sure should have been able to start this horse race!
I think it's basically the fact that the gates are a big hurdle (pardon the pun) for trainers to overcome as well as training horses to jump fences. The quality of training would deteriorate and injuries could be more likely. With flat racing, the gates are a bigger part of training than people think :P
It never ceases to amaze me that they insist on using a tape to start a race that is over four and a half miles long ... they might as well introduce starting stalls, that's how ridiculous it is. Just a white line painted across the grass, tell the jockeys not to cross the line until the starter shouts. If a horse is a bit behind the rest, what the hell difference does it make over this distance?
Exactly, I feel the starter could have let them go long before the tape was breached. There was no horse miles behind. I'm not sure if they've moved the crowd further back from the start but the crowd so close certainly didn't help matters
Wont Be Gone Long, biggest omen ever 😅 Why not award the places to the horses as a token gesture, as it was in very trying circumstances and confusion. And it was also the 2nd fastest ever finish for a Grand National.
Watching this just makes me sad :/ Thank god they sorted this out a few years back when there was a false start. Jockeys should have stopped after the first circuit.
i can't believe how long ago this is now i know it is a void race but it was nice to see Romany king get up there again after the previous year too i'm so glad that no one seriously hurt their selves in a void race though and that goes for the horses too but every so often there always seems to be some incident with this\ race i wonder what will happen this year
It's never made any sense to me why there has to be a tape. It's 4 and a half miles! Just paint a white line across the track and say nobody forward of this prior to the start!
The crowd are trying to tell the jockeys that the 2nd race is also a false start. The red flag didn't unfurl and so most of the jockeys didn't realise until it was too late. There had been some animal rights protestors invade Aintree earlier in the afternoon and most of the jockeys assumed it had happened again so kept racing right to the end.
I had a fiver on it too. Was gutted and kept my slip for a few days as a memento but cashed it in, needed the money. If I could have got hold of that bloody starter,
I remember the day so well. The first thing to say is that it wouldn’t have happened but for the animal rights protesters being on the course and causing the first delay. They are never mentioned or shown on TV, but read any article about the 1993 national and there were protestors there on the course who had to be removed by force. When the tape eventually went up it didn’t go up properly, but the jockeys realised it was a false start. The second time the tape got caught around horses feet and Richard Dunwoody’s neck. There was a system in place that if jockeys didn’t see the flag go up at the start a second flagwaver would stop them further down the course, but the jockeys just didn’t see him, or if they did they thought it was protestors on the course and kept going. It’s easy to watch on TV and assume they must have known it was a void race, but in the chaos that broke out how could they know? It’s just very lucky that no one was hurt or worse that day and it brought about big changes in how they deal with the start. What I don’t think they will ever stop is protestors who profess to care for animals and then behave in ways that could cause horses, bred to race and well looked after, to come to serious harm.
It probably didn't help that he yelled "ALRIGHT" then paused then yelled "COME ON", then paused and then yanked the tape up. It probably seemed like a split second to the old fart, but in fact was slower than watching paint dry.
Would it not have been easier to get the jockeys who didn't start the race to take off their helmets and wave down the runners at the start of the second circuit? I appreciate they wouldn't have recognised all the marshals by face (although somewhat dubious of that also...), but they know their own colleagues. One was Richard Dunwoody...
Was gutted at the time as I had esha ness in a sweepstake in work. In fairness to the jockeys, there's always the risk of idiot protestors trying to stop the race, and as the commentators said, this is probably what they thought. The crowd booing was a bit harsh though. I bet they've never tried to stop a horse at full pelt
people who say the jockeys should have realised, they have spent ages looking foreward to this, and years have been spent training these horses,months specifically for this race, as long as i wasnt the only one, i would keep going personally. The other thing is the crowd are terrible at the start, no wonder the horses wont settle!
Why didn't the 9 who were left behind run the real race later? Or reschedule it for two weeks later. As for Cahervillahow, he was jinxed, got disqualified in the Whitbrerad for nothing!
The thing is it looked like they were waving the flags behind them and a tiny flag as well. They should have had walkie talkies and someone down at the first fence waving a Golf flag that they couldn't miss. Also not sure why it was bought back the first time anyway
The perfect storm. Sent down to the start 10 minutes before they should have been. 15 Animal Rights protesters get onto the course. This was the starters final race and wanted to put on a good show. The one strand tape now sagging with rain water on it. The tape blowing into the runners from the strong breeze coming from Bechers. The starters red flag not unfurling properly because of the rain. The recall man not seeing it being waved. .Should have had a flag start. Anyway great viewing.
@gary1961 Yes it certainly is very much a pointless waste of time having a bloody tape start as what advantage is anyone going to get without a tape start
Why didn't they try to run this race again a few days, or weeks later? I'm sure they could have asked another track or two to reschedule to free up personnel to run a new attempt.
I'm not sure this should even be controversial but the result I think should have stood. The vast majority of horses had started the run, especially during the 2nd attempt. It looked no different to any normal Grand National Start. To this day, I still believe it to be a shame that it was void and saw no justification as to why it should have been.
In so far as horses from other European countries like Ireland and France can and do compete, yes. It's only called the Grand National because it's considered the greatest steeplechase race in Britain.
A lot of the jockeys say, they can here the on course commentator as they ride around the course, did this on course commentator announce the race was void? As i can hear him still commentating on the race.
It's something you couldn't even imagine now! Wat was that starter doing messing about. After the 1st fence they should of just let it run. I suppose they were scared of legal court battles maybe..etc. Such a shame.
In the Hollywood version, the two jocks are exes, know the race was called off, but "this time it's personal" and their charges race to the wire for nothing more than spiteful glory.
@@steveo7165 Well, some made a profit simply from a small number of people not wanting to claim their refund in time, either because they wanted to have something as a memento, or just plain forgot to get to the bookmakers within the allotted time frame.
That old duffer with the flag should NEVER have been near that position of starter. Back on that day I sat there watching and it was obvious that the horses were FAR too close to the tape. The Starter should have had them ALL turn round and come back in at least 10 yards off the tape. It made us a complete laughing stock !! Arguably (at that time) the most famous race in the World and we had some old duffer put in charge of the start !! Still makes me cringe to look at this shambles
I cant believe by sounds of it that the on course commentator in the background is commentating as if the race is ON. Surely he could have bought some kind of sensibility to this fiasco. (unless he didnt realise either). The jockeys surely would have picked up the tanoy commentary and realised!!
I know it is an old post but in those days the Radio 5 commentary was pumped around the course over the speakers and the team did an excellent job explaining what was happening but jockeys cant hear them.
Jockeys aren't listening to the commentary. They are focused on their own horse and trying to win, so background noise is simply filtered out by the brain.
The 1993 Grand National at Aintree will go down as one of the most shocking national, The broadcaster, the three commentators, the trainer's, the bookmakers, and the crowds can't believe what they seen. WHAT A GRAND NATIONAL DISGRACE.🖕😂😹😅😄😹🖕
The helpers could have led up the stragglers, jocks to blame too.Too much faffing about, as it's such a long race it would not have mattered if a few were a bit left behind. Tapes around necks, just awful. Terrible for the finishers, because they all jumped so well and it was those blasted animal rights demonstrators , was their fault.
I like that the commentators were still nice enough to keep their professionalism and keep commentating the race even though it was void.
Little wonder the starter was booed out of the course
At this point they are carrying on as journalists and reporting the sporting news or history/tragedy.
It's good tv views for later in the night is theyre thinking, even people who dont bet would watch it later.
@@RESPONDI433 people that don't bet watch racing horses? Why?
@@julianholland7204 the thrill of it. Or they like the horse, trainer or jockey. I like to see Dettori win because he might do his jump from the horse at the end haha
But in this instance people watch it in shock, and its also comical knowing its all gone wrong, sad but funny at the same time.
@@RESPONDI433 Interestingly, the BBC's news reporting of this year's event was more about the people, and the protests, rather than the race. They reported on it as though they'd never had anything to do with it in the first place. Typical of the current BBC.
I remember watching this with my poor old Grandad who only had a couple of weeks to live at the time. As a typical irishman he loved a good bet on the horses and he knew this was going to be the last time he saw the Grand National. I was so pissed off with them for messing it up that day!!
OK Enjoy that race agan
That was before Corinavirus and no one had to segregate
Bless you, my grandad was the same always in the bookies and had a keen eye for a good horse.
The starting system hadn't been changed for years and years.For a race like the Grand National with millions of viewers,you would think that they would have had a more sophisticated system.The commentators were brilliant.They knew it had to be a void race and said it a few times during the commentary but kept their professionalism
This was a classic British farce, people didn't know whether to laugh or cry. I was only 13 at the time and I was sitting at home laughing my head off
There were many at fault including the many pissed shouting in the crowd.
Crikey I remember this like it was yesterday!
When I was a kid I was lucky enough to have visits to Red Rum's stable in Southport where my grandmother lived & Rummy had a huge liking for Polo mints & the huge 70's collar of my shirt. Ginger McCain said him nibbling my collar was lucky & sure enough I have always picked National Winners (the only time I ever bet!)
This apparent luck even extended to this non race as I had £2 to win on beautiful Esha Ness!
Poor Esha & rider. You were still winners to me! x
I too remember this clearly!...Red Rum was a Hero! What a horse.. you were lucky to meet him.
"And they're being waved by the chair they're not going to jump it, it's not...well they are going to jump it..."! Classic
One of those classic farces where you didn't know whether to laugh or cry
how gutted do you think the winning jockey was - he thought he had won the grand national and then found out it didnt count!!!
He probably thought it was a Gotcha and was gutted he didn't get to meet Noel Edmonds
If it's any consolation for the jockey, Esha Ness gave the perfect demonstration of how to run a National. Keep out of harm's way, conserve a bit of energy while letting others do the frontrunning, then strike for home as soon as you get a clear run towards the end.
The starter looked like a grumpy, bad tempered sod. Face like a smacked backside
Even though this is nearly 20 years old, it is still one of the most jaw dropping incidents ever seen in British sport.
The best part of the coverage is what happened in the 1/2 hour after this video stops.
Well,what happened?
@@julianholland7204 Well Peter O'Sullivan in his controlled way said the words 'what can conceivably happen next'? The BBC dispatched Richard Pitman to interview the starter who was already surrounded by other officials and a few trainers. Richard P got the starter to say that under the rules ,the nine horses left at the start could race again. In fact in would have been eight as Travel Over injured a tendon when he got the tape wrapped round his leg.This kicked the whole thing off as the trainer of Zetas Lad who had a huge chance, started threatening court action etc. Then they all disappeared to hold a stewards enquiry, queue much mirth from the crowd.
@@ssuganda cheers
My friend's mum had the "winner" and she was very angry about it all - I remember her leaving the house and going for a long walk lol.
yortzandat yeah she made it, without her ££ ;)
My Mam had the "winner" aswell, She had a great winner/Place record in the National, I should have followed her!! My National record is awful..:-/
This happened 30 years ago today and it still seems like yesterday. The crap weather that day made it even worse.
I could not agree more with your comment on the BBC coverage. This is the first time I have seen the race since then and the situation still comes across as unbelievable.
Before they started pulling up on the second circuit, I think there were only 3 fallers.
Still got my £1 each way betting slip on Esha from a bookies that no longer exists.
When you watch them trying to get in a line stood in front of that sagging piece of tape that barely came up to the horses girth you wonder why nobody ever thought that it might just need replacing...
Amen! You wouldn’t let a sagging tape like that near a child’s pony at a riding school.
The Race that never was that Year, I Remember it very well, it was an Absolute Shambles, the Starter had be escorted off the Race Course as he was about to be linched by angry spectators
Horses must have been totally on edge. Starter was a bad tempered sod
Poor John White on Esha Ness!
Probably the main thing that contributed to this debacle was Captain Keith Brown saying "come on" before he had got the tape up!!! If he was a captain in the army he sure should have been able to start this horse race!
hes army-what do u expect? if he had brains-hed be dangerous
I think it's basically the fact that the gates are a big hurdle (pardon the pun) for trainers to overcome as well as training horses to jump fences. The quality of training would deteriorate and injuries could be more likely. With flat racing, the gates are a bigger part of training than people think :P
Given that NH races are so long, there is no need for gates. Nowadays they don't line up in one long line, anyway.
It never ceases to amaze me that they insist on using a tape to start a race that is over four and a half miles long ... they might as well introduce starting stalls, that's how ridiculous it is.
Just a white line painted across the grass, tell the jockeys not to cross the line until the starter shouts. If a horse is a bit behind the rest, what the hell difference does it make over this distance?
Exactly, I feel the starter could have let them go long before the tape was breached. There was no horse miles behind. I'm not sure if they've moved the crowd further back from the start but the crowd so close certainly didn't help matters
Wont Be Gone Long, biggest omen ever 😅
Why not award the places to the horses as a token gesture, as it was in very trying circumstances and confusion. And it was also the 2nd fastest ever finish for a Grand National.
Watching this just makes me sad :/ Thank god they sorted this out a few years back when there was a false start. Jockeys should have stopped after the first circuit.
Poor Esha Ness :-(
Yeah because when he or she was told that the race was void,he lost it.Are you for real ?the horse dosnt care wether it was official or not.
Anybody getting excited about the 2014 National?
Just put my bets on..Night In Milan and also Quinz. You heard it here first!.
i can't believe how long ago this is now
i know it is a void race but it was nice to see Romany king get up there again after the previous year too
i'm so glad that no one seriously hurt their selves in a void race though and that goes for the horses too
but every so often there always seems to be some incident with this\ race
i wonder what will happen this year
RIP Peter O' Sullevan
O'Sullevan died?? I wasn't aware of that. I always wondered why I no longer heard him doing commentary. Sad !!
@@dakg8034 he had stopped commentating in 1997. He was over 80 at the time
@@julzyboy1973 Thanks for the info.
It's never made any sense to me why there has to be a tape. It's 4 and a half miles! Just paint a white line across the track and say nobody forward of this prior to the start!
The Winning Jockeys face says it all.
The crowd are trying to tell the jockeys that the 2nd race is also a false start. The red flag didn't unfurl and so most of the jockeys didn't realise until it was too late. There had been some animal rights protestors invade Aintree earlier in the afternoon and most of the jockeys assumed it had happened again so kept racing right to the end.
no wonder they don't use that tape anymore......
Probably the biggest sporting foul up I have ever witnessed. I remember watching this live and could'nt believe what I was seeing !
The starter was a bad tempered sod, totally out of his depth
Cool race bro.
I love how he said they are slowing up at the canal turn when in fact it was the second fastest race ever (or not as the case may be)
I had a fiver on it too. Was gutted and kept my slip for a few days as a memento but cashed it in, needed the money. If I could have got hold of that bloody starter,
What a miserable git
A fiver?!.....it was 50-1 too wasn't it?.....£250 down the toilet, I'd have been wanting to punch someone. Probably that incompetent git of a starter.
I remember the day so well. The first thing to say is that it wouldn’t have happened but for the animal rights protesters being on the course and causing the first delay. They are never mentioned or shown on TV, but read any article about the 1993 national and there were protestors there on the course who had to be removed by force. When the tape eventually went up it didn’t go up properly, but the jockeys realised it was a false start. The second time the tape got caught around horses feet and Richard Dunwoody’s neck. There was a system in place that if jockeys didn’t see the flag go up at the start a second flagwaver would stop them further down the course, but the jockeys just didn’t see him, or if they did they thought it was protestors on the course and kept going. It’s easy to watch on TV and assume they must have known it was a void race, but in the chaos that broke out how could they know? It’s just very lucky that no one was hurt or worse that day and it brought about big changes in how they deal with the start. What I don’t think they will ever stop is protestors who profess to care for animals and then behave in ways that could cause horses, bred to race and well looked after, to come to serious harm.
THAT WAS INTENSE AND SURPRISING
You'd think they'd use an airhorn to signal a false start.
That would probably tip the horses over the edge in all honesty.
I always thought that they should have asked the jockeys who did not start to wave down the runners as they completed the first circuit.
Could that red flag be any smaller?
It probably didn't help that he yelled "ALRIGHT" then paused then yelled "COME ON", then paused and then yanked the tape up. It probably seemed like a split second to the old fart, but in fact was slower than watching paint dry.
Were the crowd saying "boo" or were they saying "whoa" (that is English for stop a horse)?
I feal so sorry four that winning jokey
Today we have a National that is not a Grand National it is simply to easy !
Would it not have been easier to get the jockeys who didn't start the race to take off their helmets and wave down the runners at the start of the second circuit? I appreciate they wouldn't have recognised all the marshals by face (although somewhat dubious of that also...), but they know their own colleagues. One was Richard Dunwoody...
1991 Gold Cup Winner- Garrison Savannah run in this.
Was gutted at the time as I had esha ness in a sweepstake in work. In fairness to the jockeys, there's always the risk of idiot protestors trying to stop the race, and as the commentators said, this is probably what they thought. The crowd booing was a bit harsh though. I bet they've never tried to stop a horse at full pelt
people who say the jockeys should have realised, they have spent ages looking foreward to this, and years have been spent training these horses,months specifically for this race, as long as i wasnt the only one, i would keep going personally. The other thing is the crowd are terrible at the start, no wonder the horses wont settle!
The Jockeys where to BLAME!!! They just didn't want to know!
THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN TITLED "THE RACE THAT NEVER HAPPENED"
My first and only child Amy was born 4 weeks before this race
Held them far too long on the 2nd attempt !
this and '97 were the best Grand Nationals
2004 national for me
Why didn't the 9 who were left behind run the real race later? Or reschedule it for two weeks later. As for Cahervillahow, he was jinxed, got disqualified in the Whitbrerad for nothing!
Jumps races never use starting gates
The starter was given the nickname Captain Cock Up. I have always wondered why the commentators get more hysterical during the race.
Was a complete shambles
The race should have been stopped at 9.38! and then another running of the race would have taken place about 30 mins later!
After watching this for the first time since it happened, I'm getting the impression that the starter and race organizers didn't have much of a clue
And Australian and New Zealand (2 winners Lord Kileen and Maori Venture)
Lord Gyllene not Lord Kileen .....
Thy need a siren to sound not a 7 inch flag
The thing is it looked like they were waving the flags behind them and a tiny flag as well. They should have had walkie talkies and someone down at the first fence waving a Golf flag that they couldn't miss. Also not sure why it was bought back the first time anyway
Trust me to back the winner in the race that never was !
because there are usually 40 horses the gates would probably be to big and the majority of horses are scared of going in them
jimmyg34567 there are no gates for all National Hunt races
The perfect storm. Sent down to the start 10 minutes before they should have been. 15 Animal Rights protesters get onto the course. This was the starters final race and wanted to put on a good show. The one strand tape now sagging with rain water on it. The tape blowing into the runners from the strong breeze coming from Bechers. The starters red flag not unfurling properly because of the rain. The recall man not seeing it being waved. .Should have had a flag start. Anyway great viewing.
@gary1961 Yes it certainly is very much a pointless waste of time having a bloody tape start as what advantage is anyone going to get without a tape start
Why didn't they try to run this race again a few days, or weeks later? I'm sure they could have asked another track or two to reschedule to free up personnel to run a new attempt.
You can't just have 1 race, you need to have 5 other races to make up an event.
I'm not sure this should even be controversial but the result I think should have stood. The vast majority of horses had started the run, especially during the 2nd attempt. It looked no different to any normal Grand National Start. To this day, I still believe it to be a shame that it was void and saw no justification as to why it should have been.
so whats the story?
did everyone get a full refund?
Bookies had to give refunds on bets (unless the person never claimed), but as far as the tickets to attend the event, nope.
is the grand national an international race?
In so far as horses from other European countries like Ireland and France can and do compete, yes. It's only called the Grand National because it's considered the greatest steeplechase race in Britain.
A lot of the jockeys say, they can here the on course commentator as they ride around the course, did this on course commentator announce the race was void? As i can hear him still commentating on the race.
And despite all some competitors fell!
It's something you couldn't even imagine now! Wat was that starter doing messing about. After the 1st fence they should of just let it run. I suppose they were scared of legal court battles maybe..etc.
Such a shame.
Did it not occur to any of the race organizers that the saggy starting tape might cause one or two issues 🤔
And despite all a competitor fell!
This grand national 1993 will go down as a disaster grand national ever.
personally i think the jockeys were ignoring them due to this being the 2nd misstart
Willow Mistpie I'd be pissed off, the horse would be getting tired so I'd just carry on tbh
Beth Bowen exactly. I would be fed up too
Beth Bowen working the horses up For nothing
Stubborn jockeys.
9:02 for the horses not giving any shits about the guy waving a red flag in front of them :p
In the Hollywood version, the two jocks are exes, know the race was called off, but "this time it's personal" and their charges race to the wire for nothing more than spiteful glory.
Has anything like this ever happened since in a major race - or indeed any race?
There's been quite a few. Look on Utube
that was the past
i know JP McManus
He told me THE LAST SAMURAI will win the 2017 Grand National
16-1 Take it to the bank
Yeah, that worked out well.
If you 'took that to the bank,' you'd now be overdrawn and on the way to bankruptcy.
LOL, the jockeys are still using the whip.
@densaner77 actualy bookmakers paid back over £70 million in refunds on the race.
But didn't loose a penny! They will have made a profit with thousands of Ante post bets. The Bookies never lose,in the long term!!!
@@steveo7165 Ante-post bets get paid back if race isn't run...
@@steveo7165 Well, some made a profit simply from a small number of people not wanting to claim their refund in time, either because they wanted to have something as a memento, or just plain forgot to get to the bookmakers within the allotted time frame.
I still find it strange John White doesn't go for/use his whip once?
At 8.08 the loose farm week can be seen!
...Yeah I know that. I was asking why they didnt.
And they're still at the same sh.t today. Horses are animals they don't lineup perfectly
They certainly knew before they started the 2nd circuit that it had been a false start
The worst starter in racing history. He should have retired years before
Did they cancel it because 3 horses werent on the "line"?
That is ridiculous
Rhe tape went round a jockey's neck
That old duffer with the flag should NEVER have been near that position of starter. Back on that day I sat there watching and it was obvious that the horses were FAR too close to the tape. The Starter should have had them ALL turn round and come back in at least 10 yards off the tape.
It made us a complete laughing stock !!
Arguably (at that time) the most famous race in the World and we had some old duffer put in charge of the start !! Still makes me cringe to look at this shambles
@sidMGS You serious?? A jockey walking around with a flag. Thatd be stupid mate
A backed romany king and party politics that year still piece of history
I cant believe by sounds of it that the on course commentator in the background is commentating as if the race is ON. Surely he could have bought some kind of sensibility to this fiasco. (unless he didnt realise either). The jockeys surely would have picked up the tanoy commentary and realised!!
I know it is an old post but in those days the Radio 5 commentary was pumped around the course over the speakers and the team did an excellent job explaining what was happening but jockeys cant hear them.
Jockeys aren't listening to the commentary. They are focused on their own horse and trying to win, so background noise is simply filtered out by the brain.
I was there I backed topsham bay it was a farce
Why do they not use actual starting gates? It would prevent problems like this.
biggest mess-up of a horse race ever.
8 thick micks lol
void race and still some jockeys kept going - John White main culprit
What a farce have lights or siren at first fence not some silly old suffer with a flag no jockey can see
I was 13 at the time, large family gathering on that day and we all picked names out of a hat, 'winner' got a slap up meal. Guess who 'won'
Do animal rights demonstrators generally dress in tweed wearing a fedora?
Bad enough doing one circuit but after doing two 🤬
The face of the 'winning' jockey at the end...Poor bloke
The 1993 Grand National at Aintree will go down as one of the most shocking national, The broadcaster, the three commentators, the trainer's, the bookmakers, and the crowds can't believe what they seen. WHAT A GRAND NATIONAL DISGRACE.🖕😂😹😅😄😹🖕
The helpers could have led up the stragglers, jocks to blame too.Too much faffing about, as it's such a long race it would not have mattered if a few were a bit left behind. Tapes around necks, just awful. Terrible for the finishers, because they all jumped so well and it was those blasted animal rights demonstrators , was their fault.
If you watch modern National Hunt starts, you'll see that they aren't all in one long line any more.
What a farce, should've just let them go
The last time the old farts started it.The only thing they were good for was starting wars and kicking match sellers