Amateur Riders In Liverpool National
It is the ambition of many English amateurs to have a mount in the Liverpool Grand National, and on occasions horses have been bought so that their owners should figure in that race. These inexperienced riders constitute a danger, and it is proposed to take a step that will make things safer for the regular jumping jockeys. The idea is, in future, to bar any rider 'amateur or professional) who has not ridden five steeplechase winners in any country. Point-to-point and hunt races will not count as qualifying winners. Aintree is difficult enough without the presence ,of riders who scarcely know which way they or their mounts are going.
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Northern Advocate, 5 September 1939, Page 9
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114Amateur Riders In Liverpool National Northern Advocate, 5 September 1939, Page 9
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