Frankie Shortt on the amazing 1967 Grand National: ‘It was like the end of the world. Everything had stopped there’

Fifty years ago Irish jockey Frankie Shortt sat aboard Aussie at the start of the Aintree Grand National. Little could have prepared him for the next eight minutes and one of the most amazing runnings of the world’s most famous steeplechase.

"And they’re turning now to the fence after Becher’s, and as they do the leader is Castle Falls, with Rutherfords along the inside and he’s being… And Rutherfords has been hampered and so has Castle Falls! Rondetto has fallen! Princeful has fallen! Norther has fallen! Kirtle Lad has fallen! Eh, The Fossa has fallen! There’s a right pileup!"

— Michael O’Hehir, April 8, 1967