Praise for Crisp

Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33191, 3 April 1973, Page 8

Praise for Crisp

i <y.Z. Press Assn —Copyright> ' LONDON. The Australian steeplechaser.; Crisp, would have won Satur-I day's Grand National at Aintree,; Liverpool, if there had been an-; other fence, the “Sun” reported; yesterday. This was the opinion of Crisp’s; trainer, F Winter, when inter-, viewed by the newspaper. • Winter said that his horse had, I tired on the long run home after j the final fence and Red Rum > caught him. "But if there had been another fence in the straight he would not have lost his concentration; and I'm sure he would have ! won.” the trainer said. The “Guardian” reported that! although the prize had gone to I Red Rum, the glory had gone toi Crisp. In the “Daily Mirror.” Crisp’s! jockey, R. Pitman, said: “rm already looking forward to thei second ride of a lifetime on Crisp I in next year’s Grand National.; We may not have taken the! spoils, but Crisp won the glory ”. The “Daily Express” racing! correspondent said that Winter’s! “grim smile” would be the last; memory he would carry away from this year's National. “There was nothing he could sav to the crowd of sympathisers who had watched the indomitable Red Rum snatch victory. "Those of us who were there and the others who watched on television, can never forget the fantastic jumping bv Crisp, with Pitman sitting fearlessly up his , neck as if they were jumping 1 hurdles.”