Sports Highlights Of 1956: Turf.
Sports Highlights Of 1956: Turf.
Sports Highlights Of 1956: Turf. "A spectacular finish in the Kentucky Derby; the Grand National, world's roughest test of horse and rider; Olympic steeplechase, a brutal cross-country ordeal." Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs: Horse named Needles takes the lead and wins. Slow motion finish. Aintree, England: In the Grand National steeplechase, some spills of horses and riders. The horse Devon Loch (the royal entry of the Queen Mother) falls, for no apparent reason, sprawling forward in a belly-flop (animal blooper) and another horse named ESP passes by to win. Queen Mum, Queen Elizabeth II and others look on with disappointment. Olympic steeplechase trials, near Stockholm, Sweden: Horse and rider leap hazard and plunge face-first into water. More horses trip on fences, poor animals. Looks painful. Startling.