GRAND NATIONAL.
DANGEROUS FIELD IN RACE. LONDON, March 17. An astonishing spectacle is promised at Aintree on Friday in the Grand National, when it is likely sixty will contest thirty obstacles oyer four miles and a half of the stiffest country in the world. This compares with a field of thirty- seven in 1927, and forty-two in 1928. There are eighty-six still left in. The race has thrills enough with a normal field, but the danger is most serious when there are insufficient steeplechase riders to mount all the horses and stableboys are requisitioned. Experts suggest that the starters be drastically reduced ir future by converting the National into a weight-for-age event instead of a handicap.—(Australian Press Association.)
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Wairarapa Age, 19 March 1929, Page 5
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