BOB CHAMPION will be part of a stellar line-up of former National Hunt jockeys in the Bob Champion Aintree Legends Charity race on John Smith’s Grand National day next year.
Champion famously landed the Aintree showpiece with a fairy-tale victory aboard Aldaniti in 1981 after he had recovered from testicular cancer .
Aldaniti, himself, had also come back from a serious leg injury, to race to glory in the world’s most famous steeplechase.
Their story was immortalised in the film, Champions, starring John Hurt.
As well as Champion there will be several other National winners joining him in the charity Flat race at Aintree on April 9.
Signed up to ride are Brendan Powell (1988, Rhyme ’N’ Reason), Jimmy Frost (1989, Little Polveir), Carl Llewellyn (1992, Party Politics & 1998, Earth Summit) and Tony Dobbin (1997, Lord Gyllene).
Eight-time champion jockey Peter Scudamore who never managed to win the National, will be taking part as will 10-time Irish champion Charlie Swan, who won a similar race at Doncaster earlier this year.
The race will be run in aid of the Bob Champion Cancer Trust, which was founded in 1983 and which has so far raised £12million.
