{"id":138875,"date":"2020-04-04T15:50:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T13:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/04\/04\/grand-national-1977-red-rum-goes-for-historic-treble-live\/"},"modified":"2020-04-04T15:50:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T13:50:08","slug":"grand-national-1977-red-rum-goes-for-historic-treble-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=138875","title":{"rendered":"Grand National 1977: Red Rum goes for historic treble \u2013\u00a0live!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Relive the coverage of Aintree\u2019s world famous steeplechaseTalking Horses: millions will tune in for Virtual National 2.50pm BST 2.50pm Richard Baerlein, the Guardian\u2019s racing correspondent, plumped for Gay Vulgan in his tipping piece in this morning\u2019s paper, describing him as \u201can ideal National type, built in the old-fashioned style. He has now run five times this season without defeat. The further he goes, the better he goes. He jumps well and has an outstanding chance.\u201d Richard is concerned about the hard race Gay Vulgan had when winning the three-mile handicap chase at the Cheltenham Festival but says he has been personally assured by Fulke Walwyn that the horse \u201cis as well as ever and the race has done him no harm\u201d.Richard also puts in a good word for Andy Pandy, Sir Garnet and Zeta\u2019s Son, \u201cone of the most improved handicappers in training\u201d. He reckons Pengrail and Winter Rain will be weak finishers and fears Davy Lad could \u201cget left too far behind\u201d if the ground dries up. One of his sources in Ireland apparently prefers both War Bonnet and Castleruddery to the Gold Cup winner, especially War Bonnet, to be ridden by Tommy Carberry, last year\u2019s winning jockey. 2.45pm BST 2.45pm Next up &#8230; it\u2019s the Grand National itself! Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2020\/apr\/04\/grand-national-1977-red-rum-goes-for-historic-treble-live\" target=\"_blank\">Grand National 1977: Red Rum goes for historic treble \u2013\u00a0live!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relive the coverage of Aintree\u2019s world famous steeplechaseTalking Horses: millions will tune in for Virtual National 2.50pm BST 2.50pm Richard Baerlein, the Guardian\u2019s racing correspondent, plumped for Gay Vulgan in his tipping piece in this morning\u2019s paper, describing him as \u201can ideal National type, built in the old-fashioned style. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}