Horse Racing: Pipe Dream Comes True to Complete an Aintree Family Affair ; John Smith's Grand National 2008
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FROM the Tophams to the many relatives who crowd around their televisions screens all around the world, the John Smith's Grand National is as much about families as it is about racing.
No other race or sport brings together so many families and communities from the 68,360 who flocked to Aintree to those up and down the land who had got their horses in office sweeps or backed them at the local bookmakers and keenly watched their fate.See the full content of this document
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Horse Racing: Pipe Dream Comes True to Complete an Aintree Family Affair ; John Smith's Grand National 2008
The many famous racing families who have etched their name in the history of the great race are numerous. Names such as Rimell, Scudamore, Taaffe, Carberry, Walsh and McCain are writ large in Aintree folklore.
And Saturday's 161st running of the world's greatest steeplechase added another as David Pipe's Comply Or Die, under a perfect ride from jockey Timmy Murphy, secured victor...See the full content of this document
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