Our last look back into the Grand National archives goes back to the end of the last century. The 1999 Grand National heralded the end of a 24-year drought for the Irish as Paul Carberry on Bobbyjo repeated his father, Tommy’s feat by winning the greatest steeplechase on earth. I have attached the Daily Mirror Grand National pull-out for Saturday April 10th 1999 in PDF form for you to download and keep.
BySteve
Steve Bradley is the man behind this project, an unashamedly nostalgic website dedicated to horse racing’s golden days of the past, featuring vintage racecards, clippings and news stories plucked from the newspapers of the day. A devotee of horse racing’s halcyon days from the 1960s to the 1990s, Steve caught the racing bug as a small boy living near Catterick racecourse, where he was lucky enough to see the great Red Rum in action in the 1970s. He has undertaken private research commissions for various figures within the racing industry. Away from racing he enjoys spending time with his retired greyhound, bar billiards, music, TV, films, reading and travel.