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The Great Race...... |
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| This was the year for speed, recovering from the excitement
of last year, the Coronation and the Ashes. We keep up the momentum
with a few classics this year. |
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Lester Piggot was 18 when he won his first Derby on a 33-1 outsider
Never Say Die. It was then he was advised to get a good accountant,
he said "I'll see that nice young man...
Arthur Anderson"!!!! |
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| If you talk to anybody from this era they will tell you that....
"Summers were always hot and winters were cold". Roger Bannister
broke the 4 minute mile on the 27 July. If it was so hot in the Summers
why is everyone wearing an overcoat? Oh yes! the time 3:59.4 |
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Tom Finney
(Preston) was voted footballer of the year |
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| Chris The Magnificent that is what they called the great Chris Chatterway
beat the Russian Iron Man Vladimir Kuts at the White City on the 13th
October. The crowd of 40,00 watched as he broke the world record for
the 5,000 metres (3 miles 188 yards) in the new record time of 13:51.6 |
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