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Film & Video Catalogue: Item Detail

Film Number

6438

Title

[RED RUM AT AINTREE & THE POYNTON SHOW]

Producer

Vera Reynolds

Date

1978

Gauge

spr8mm

Colour

colour

Sound

silent

Running Time

10 mins 58 secs

Description

Shots of a kestrel hovering over the steeple of the Priory Church of St Mary, Lancaster. Grand National runners and special guest Red Rum (not actually running) being paraded in front of crowds at Aintree racecourse on 1 April 1978. Red Rum being ridden in the main ring of Poynton Show, 26 August 1978, by his stable lad Billy Beardwood and eating in his horse box.

 

 



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