Example sentences of "the grand national " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Grand National always attracts around 15 million . |
| 2 | The council has asked the Grand National Archery Association to stop its member counties from holding ‘ postal shoots ’ with the Natal Archery Society . |
| 3 | The council has asked the Grand National Archery Association to stop its member counties from holding ‘ postal shoots ’ with the Natal Archery Society . |
| 4 | Everything else is a bonus , but it 's also a bit like hunting round the first circuit safely in the Grand National — you know it 's the next circuit that matters . ’ |
| 5 | The agency 's own Concorde charters swooping over the Grand National , and personal gifts such as bouquets of flowers for customers have earned it an enthusiastic local following . |
| 6 | Though noted for conservative and traditional models , like the Buick LeSabre , the division was also selling high-performance cars like the Grand National . |
| 7 | Buick decided to shed cars which did not fit its image , like the Grand National . |
| 8 | Red Rum was an eight-year-old , and had had to work hard for his corn , being trained in several yards and shrugging off the effects of damaging foot disease , before finding his true vocation in the care of trainer Ginger McCain , who bought Red Rum for 6000 guineas on behalf of owner Noel Le Mare , and gradually made the horse into one of the best chasers in the north ; he owed his position in the Grand National betting to highly encouraging runs in three handicaps early in 1973 following five successive victories the previous autumn . |
| 9 | In 1973 he again tried his hand at Cheltenham and ran third in the Champion Chase before being directed to Liverpool for the Grand National . |
| 10 | This seemed a race well beyond his stamina range , for the Grand National is over nearly four and a half miles and Crisp 's ideal distance was apparently no further than two and a half miles . |
| 11 | Two fences later , as the runners swerved left over the Canal Turn , he had sped to the front and was inexorably increasing his advantage and turning the Grand National into a glorious exhibition round . |
| 12 | ‘ I ca n't remember a horse so far ahead in the Grand National at this stage ! ’ enthused commentator Julian Wilson on BBC television as Crisp came to Becher 's Brook for the second time , still looking uncatchable : galloping relentlessly and jumping brilliantly , he was thirty lengths clear and showed no signs of flagging . |
| 13 | LEFT Crisp and Richard Pitman at the Grand National start on the morning of the race . |
| 14 | For he was the Queen Mother 's steeplechaser who belly-flopped yards from the Grand National winning post , the horse who grabbed defeat from the very jaws of victory in such a way that even those with no interest whatsoever in the sport of racing still recall the sight of ‘ that horse who jumped the fence that was n't there ’ . |
| 15 | In December 1954 he was ridden for the first time by the reigning champion jockey Dick Francis : after the race Francis told Cazalet that he would like to ride Devon Loch one day in the Grand National … |
| 16 | By the spring of 1956 Devon Loch , now a ten-year-old but lightly raced , was clearly a serious candidate for the Grand National : he had won two good chases the previous autumn and finished fifth in the King George VI Chase to Limber Hill . |
| 17 | ( It is worth remembering that in those days the Grand National fences did not incorporate a sloping apron of gorse on the take-off side to help the horses jump accurately : the take-off side was sheer , and consequently more difficult to gauge correctly . ) |
| 18 | The longer the race went on , the better Devon Loch jumped , and as he soared over Becher 's Brook on the second circuit no runner was going better : the Queen Mother 's dream of winning the Grand National was about to come true . |
| 19 | Devon Loch had appeared to take off right by the water jump , which the runners on the second circuit of the Grand National by-pass as they approach the winning post : had he caught that fence out of the corner of his eye and tried to jump it ? |
| 20 | The Grand National course narrows approaching the winning post and bends round to the left immediately after , and with crowds manically screaming at him in the stands and on both rails and directly in front of him it would hardly be surprising if Devon Loch had suddenly been startled by the deafening noise . |
| 21 | The Queen Mother took the reverse stoically , writing to Cazalet a few days after the Grand National : ‘ We will not be done in by this , and will just keep on trying . ’ |
| 22 | When it was announced that he would be entered in the Grand National a fierce debate raged about whether the nation 's best-loved horse should take part in such a dangerous event : the letters columns of the sporting press argued the pros and cons for weeks , a national newspaper ran an opinion poll ( in which the voters came down very heavily against his participation ) , and the publication of the weights for the race ( Desert Orchid twelve stone two pounds ) added fuel to the fire . |
| 23 | Despite his injury problems Aldaniti was clearly a candidate for the Grand National , and to the stricken Bob Champion the idea of winning the Liverpool race on this horse became an inspiration as he awaited his third course of chemotherapy . |
| 24 | Bob Champion had been advised by Fred Winter , who had twice ridden the winner of the Grand National , to take a pull halfway to the first fence in order to prevent his mount from rushing at it . |
| 25 | In 1983 the jockey would found the Bob Champion Cancer Trust , and four years later Aldaniti himself ( who fell at the first fence in the 1982 National ) would play his part in the Trust 's fund-raising activities by undertaking a 250-mile charity walk from London to Liverpool , arriving at the course to massive acclaim on the day of the Grand National : among the riders who partnered the 1981 hero on his trek was the Princess Royal . |
| 26 | Foinavon had come a remote fourth in the King George VI Chase at Kempton Park the previous December but few disputed that his starting price in the Grand National was a true reflection of his chance . |
| 27 | The Grand National had been brought to a halt . |
| 28 | Mindful that the shenanigans at the twenty-third would do little to enhance the image of the Grand National , then at a low ebb , the Stewards of the meeting were moved to issue a statement : |
| 29 | FOR THE thoughtful punter , with cash in hand , at least two openings present themselves this morning — the Grand National and next week 's General Election . |
| 30 | The Grand National : Speedy Willsford carries maximum confidence |