1964 Grand National

English steeplechase horse race May 2014 May 2014 August 2014 1964 Grand National Grand National Aintree Racecourse 21 March 1964 Team Spirit 18/1 Ireland Willie Robinson England Fulke Walwyn John Goodman Good to soft 1963 1965 right 275px BBC British Pathe Highlights The 1964 Grand National was the 118th renewal of the Grand National horse race that took place at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool, England, on 21 March 1964. Thirty-three horses ran and the race was won narrowly by American-owned 12-year-old Team Spirit, at odds of 18/1. He was ridden by jockey Willie Robinson and trained by Fulke Walwyn. The journalist and broadcaster Nancy Spain and her partner, the magazine editor Joan Werner Laurie, were among five people killed when their light aircraft crashed near the racecourse on the day of the race, which they were travelling to attend.Rose Collis, ‘Spain, Nancy Brooker (1917–1964)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2011 accessed 26 March 2013 Finishing order PositionNameJockeyAgeHandicap (st-lb)SPDistance01Team SpiritWillie Robinson1210-318/102Purple SilkJohn Kenneally910-4100/603PeacetownRoy Edwards1010-140/104EternalSteve Davenport1310-266/105Pontin-GoPeter Jones1210-066/106SpringbokGerry Scott1010-11100/607April RoseEddie Harty910-022/108BaxierWilliam McLernon810-040/109CrobegJohn Lawrence1110-450/110Pappageno's CottagePat Taaffe911-10100/711John O'GroatsPaul Kelleway1010-322/112SupersweetPaddy Broderick710-140/113ClaymoreColin Davies1110-050/114Out And AboutBruce Gregory910-133/115Sea KnightPaul Nicholson911-1066/1Last to complete Non-finishers FenceNameJockeyAgeHandicap (st-lb)Starting priceFate12Pas SeulDavid Dick1112-022/1Fell01Flying WildDavid Mould811-3100/7Fell04LaffyBill Rees810-8100/7Fell15AyalaDavid Nicholson1010-733/1Fell21KilmoreFred Winter1410-7100/6Fell15Border FlightPaddy Farrell910-3100/6Fell15LizawakeBobby Beasley1110-418/1Fell28Dancing RainOwen McNally910-066/1Refused09Centre CircleJohn Haine910-040/1Fell22TimeMichael Scudamore910-4100/7Fell23ReproductionRobin Langley1110-066/1Fell27MerganserJohnny Lehane1110-066/1Pulled Up27Gale Force XBobby Coonan710-050/1Unseated Rider23GroomsmanFrancis Shortt910-066/1Fell27Red ThornTerry Biddlecombe810-333/1Pulled Up27ReprievedPhil Harvey1110-066/1Pulled Up12Beau NormandJeff King810-10100/6Refused25L'EmpereurJean Daumas1010-540/1Pulled UpThe Grand National : the history of the Aintree spectacular, by Stewart Peters & Bernard Parkin, 0-7524-3547-7 http://sixtiesnationals.webs.com/196465.htm 1964/65 - The Grand National and Aintree 1960-1969 sixtiesnationals.webs.com 2014-08-08 3 January 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140103225229/http://sixtiesnationals.webs.com/196465.htm dead http://www.grand-national.net/past_winners.htm Past Winners of The Grand National grand-national.net 2014-08-08 https://web.archive.org/web/20111104085359/http://www.grand-national.net/past_winners.htm 4 November 2011 dead Media coverage Grand National Grandstand on the BBC again provided the television coverage. For the third year running the commentary team remained unchanged with Peter O'Sullevan leading them off and finishing the race, Bob Haynes calling them over the first four fences before Peter Montague-Evans took them over the signature fences out in the country, Becher's Brook, Canal Turn and Valentine's Brook before handing back to O'Sullevan in the grandstand once they reached the Anchor Bridge crossing. References 1964 1964 Grand National Grand National Grand National