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...scratched, screwed sideways in the air, landed clear but had to be pulled up. He was down before the end of the first round. They had gotten around once and Shaun Goilin was in front coming to Becher's Brook. He rose' wearily, barely clearing, and Melleray's Belle edged past, Sir Lindsay moved nearer. They took the last fence, Shaun Goilin still behind, Sir Lindsay starting for the wire, pulling up even with Melleray's Belle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Grand National | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

...Liverpool cotton broker who never bets on horse races, who once paid $53,000 for Silvio to win the Grand National, but failed, and admits that he does not know the pedigree of Shaun Goilin, whom he calls "a thoroughly Irish horse." As he watched Sir Lindsay and Melleray's Belle moving away, Mr. Midwood may have questioned the merits of his horse's ancestry more seriously than ever before, and even the judgment of his jockey, the famed Tommy Cullinan of County Limerick, son of a sporting farmer, famed for his clever finishes and for leading with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Grand National | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

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