109 entries for National
NZPA-AP Liverpool» A Hungarian-bred horse ? trained in Czechoslovakia s and the three previous’ winners of the race were'’ among the 109 entries,’ announced yesterday fors the Grand National, the* world’s most gruelling» steeplechase. ' This year’s event is to a be run at Aintree on April* 5. t The entries for the » mile race over 30 fences J eventually will be cut to* 40., . r . j They include the 1985? winner, Last Suspect, J Hallo Dandy, which > triumphed two years ago * and Corbiere, the 1983 s winner. ‘ The only Eastern pean visitor is Essex, an' eight-year-old ? gelding,.' trained and to be ridden e by one of . Czecho-’ Slovakia’s top Jockeys, Va-» clav Chaloupka. * Essex has won three 06 his seven domestic ’chases £ but fell while leading the" Valka Pardublcka, re- 8 garded as Czecho-’ Slovakia’s equivalent of* the National. J The last Czechoslovak • horse to enter the 149-“ year-old Grand National? was Gyi Lovam, which; fell at the feared Bechers > Brook in 1931. ’
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Press, 25 January 1986, Page 26
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166109 entries for National Press, 25 January 1986, Page 26
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