The Cancelled Grand Nationals Horse Racing: [Aintree] The M...

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The Cancelled Grand Nationals

Horse Racing: [Aintree] The Martell Grand National, Saturday April 3rd 1993, 8vo, Aintree 1993, illus. & adverts, ptd. wrappers; The Martell Grand National, Saturday April 5th, 1997, 8vo, Aintree 1997, illus. & adverts, ptd. wrappers. Both good copies. (2)
* The 1993 Grand National was cancelled and declared a void race, due to a series of incidents and later called "The Greatest Disaster in the Race's History."  The 1997 Grand National was cancelled and re-scheduled after a Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb threat forced the evacuation of the course.