Aldaniti: The Story of a Champion

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We initially had a few thousand pounds sent in from people who won money on the horse. There were a lot of fivers here and there,” said Champion. Everyone asked, ‘Do you want to pull Niti out of the National?’” remembers Alex Embiricos. “But it was Dad’s dream, and Bob’s dream to win it..” It was the thought of riding Aldaniti and some other star names that kept Champion going during his darkest days.

Niti returned to the Embiricos farm (in the care of Beryl and Wilf Millam) to recuperate from injuries, and later to retire. He died there aged 27, and is buried there. After a dismal loss in 1981’s first Ashes test at Trent Bridge, then a draw at Lord’s, Mike Brearley took over the captaincy ahead of the third test at Headingley. then he or she may make this known to Aldaniti Nonetheless, the receipt of said notification shall not represent knowledge for the purposes of liability as set out in Article 17 of the Spanish Law on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce (LSSICE). The horse must have been the best patient in the world because he was tied up for six months in plaster. He couldn’t lay down. He just stood there at the end of a rope just eating his food for six months. His constitution was great. A lot of horses would have gone crazy – I know I would have done. He was such a wonderful patient. Beryl, who looked after him - they all did a fantastic job.Thankfully it worked, but getting fit was the hard bit, because I’d lost all my muscle. Everything about me, I weighed down to about nine stone. The team at the Bob Champion Research and Education Building in Norwich. Bob’s charity fundraising continues. This year he will embark on a near 200‐mile walk to mark the 40th anniversary of his National win. After leaving racing, he focused his energy on training horses and running the Bob Champion Cancer Trust. Their legacy is a sense of hope for all those who follow in their paths. They taught us that, even when things look desperate, success is just over the next fence for those who choose to make the jump. Aldaniti (by Derek H) could pull like a tank and yet was gentle enough to let 11-year-old Alex Embiricos groom him when on box rest.

It’s the best of 1981 here – Aldaniti’s Grand National triumph is up against Ian Botham’s Headlingley heroics in the third Test of the Ashes. The Helen Rollason award is presented in honour of the former BBC Sport presenter who herself died from cancer in 1999. Niti played himself in some of the shots in Champions, the film about his and Bob’s story, although he didn’t jump for the film. Six equine doubles were also used, all made up to look like him. Then a doctor translated his chances into racing odds, and it sounded like a bet that Bob would take.He said: “Hopefully I will be allowed to go to Liverpool. I love goingt to there. The Liverpool people you can’t beat them. They are absolutely a fantastic bunch of people. It is not just at National-time, if I go any time they are really great people. I hit the front three and a half miles too early because he used to pull very hard but he was jumping so he got himself there.