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4 unusual facts about Richard Dunwoody


1993 Grand National

At the second attempt, the tape became tangled again — around the neck of jockey Richard Dunwoody — and Brown called another false start.

1999 Grand National

Richard Dunwoody took the ride and as the most experienced rider in the race the two-time former winner joined a group of eleven men to have weighed out for fourteen Nationals.

Martin Pipe

Pipe went on to be Champion Trainer 15 times with successive stable jockeys Peter Scudamore, Richard Dunwoody, David Bridgwater and Tony McCoy.

Richard Dunwoody

Their route followed one which had previously been attempted by Ernest Shackleton and was both the first successful completion of that route on foot as well the first successfully completed new route to the South Pole in ten years.



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