An Englishman in Glasgow saw large numbers of people all heading in the same direction, and, being curious, he asked a bys.tander where the crowd was going. “Oh,” said the man, “they’re going to see the football match between the Fenians and the. Mean Yins.” It took the Englishman a long time to puzzle out, but at last he gathered that Celtic was playing against Aberdeen.
In the 93 years’ history of the Grand National Steeplechase, most difficult race in the world, only 35 horses have been killed, and only one jockey has lost his life. The last-mentioned fatality occurred about 70 years ago.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6864, 21 May 1932, Page 11
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