Horse Racing - Crabbie's Grand National Festival - Aintree Racecourse - 9/4/15 On The Fringe and Nina Carberry celebrate after winning the 16.05 Crabbie's Fox Hunters' Chase Reuters / Darren Staples
LIVERPOOL, England, April 10 - When Velvet Brown, in the shape of a young Elizabeth Taylor, won the Grand National on The Pie in 1944, it could only be a fairytale forged in Hollywood’s fevered imagination. Seventy-one years on, though, the idea of a woman winning the world’s greatest steeplechase is no longer the stuff of ‘National Velvet’ movie fantasy. Indeed, according to top jockeys like A.P McCoy, it is just a matter of time before a woman rider wins the National.
How about Saturday then as the accomplished Irish jockey, Nina Carberry, who won over the same National fences at Aintree in Thursday’s Fox Hunters’ Chase for amateurs, rides First Lieutenant, a well-regarded contender in the 168th edition.
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