Favourite, Kilstar, is Third, MacMoffat Second "250,000 Attend World's Most Thrilling Race Aintree, Mar, 24. IR Alexander Maquire's Workman, ridden by Hyde, won the Grand National Steeplechase sere today, beating MacMoffat (Alder) and the favourite Kilstar (Archibald), who finished second and third respectively.
Workman, who came third in last year's race, which went to the American horse Battleship, won by-three Jengths.
Of the field of 37 horses who started, only eleven finished the gruelling course.
Kilstar started as favourite, at odds of eight to'one, while Workman was quoted at 100 to eight and MacMoffat at 25 (0 one, Workman, jumping like a cat, finished with a burst of speed. The only horse that appeared to stand a chance of beating him as the race neared its close was MacMoffat. Kilstar was way behind the two leaders and finished third by fifteen lengths.
The weather was sunny and a crowd of over 250,000 people was present when the world's most thrill-Ing steeplechase. run over a distance of four miles. 850 yards, slarted. The Being was fairly good.
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