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And L'Escargot is going to avenge last year's defeat. Tommy Carberry is gonna become the first jockey in history to win the Gold Cup, the Irish National and the English National as L'Escargot strides near 12 years old to win the National for Raymond Guest, and here he comes to the line, L'Escargot the comfortable winner of the 1975 National!
Commentator Peter O'Sullevan describes the climax of the 1975 National
The 1975 Grand National (officially known as the News of the World Grand National for sponsorship reasons) was the 129th renewal of the Grand Nationalhorse race that took place at Aintree near Liverpool, England, on 5 April 1975. The race was won by 13/2 second-favourite L'Escargot, ridden by Tommy Carberry, in a time of nine minutes and 31.1 seconds and by a distance of 15 lengths over 7/2 favourite Red Rum, who was thus denied a third consecutive win.
David Coleman presented a Grand National Grandstand special. Unfortunately, this year saw two fatalities. Land Lark suffered a heart attack whilst jumping the 15th and Beau Bob who had noticeably tired and dropped back to the rear took a heavy fall at Becher's Brook on the second circuit (22nd fence) and had to be euthanized.
References
The Grand National: the history of the Aintree Spectacular, by Stewart Peters & Bernard Parkin, ISBN0-7524-3547-7
L'Escargot
Raymond R. Guest
The 1975 Grand National in full (BBC)