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1981 Sun Grandnational

Fairytales are usually written as stories like Roy of the Rovers, but sometimes fiction turns into reality and on one occasion it actually happened on Saturday 4th April in 1981, when jockey Bob Champion and his horse Aldaniti won the greatest steeplechase in the world and so a fairytale was written for real, what was so remarkable about this story is that Bob Champion was diagnosed with cancer and was given 3 months to live and no hope but was offered a slight chance of survival or at least prolonging his life and in those days there was no research for a cure but a new form of Chemotherapy in its infancy was offered to Bob with very little chance of any success whatsoever, in fact he was to be a Guinea pig and at first he refused and decided to leave the hospital but as he was leaving he noticed a children’s Ward and went in one of the nurses explained they have cancer and one of the children went up to Bob and asked him, “are you going to get better”. Bob with a tear in his eye changed his mind and agreed to have the therapy. After 6 months treatment the doctor revealed that the growth had gone but warned he must keep up the treatment and change his life from the one he knew, Bob agreed to return for check ups and in the meantime his trainer Josh Gifford had made a promise to Bob that he would retain him as his number one jockey as long as he got better, meanwhile his horse Aldaniti had problems of his own, the horse had a history of breaking down and also had bad legs but he had courage and brave heart, but sadly while Bob was recovering from his treatment, Aldaniti while in a race misjudged his take off and hit the fence and fell badly, Aldaniti was flat on the ground in agony, the vet advised the owner Nick Embiricos and his wife to put the horse down as he was suffering but the owner’s wife refused and decided to take him home instead. Amazingly under the care of the owners and their trainer Josh Gifford, Aldaniti made an astonishing recovery. With Bob returning from his miracle cure and Aldaniti against all odds to race again the Grandnational beckoned, with both of them going through with what they did it was a miracle just to get to the starting post let alone having a chance of winning it was short of impossible. But the impossible happened, jumping 30 gruelling fences, which included: The infamous Bechers Brook twice, the chair and the canal turn and to add 4 and a half miles to that and if that wasn’t enough staving off the fast finishing Sparton Missile ridden by his owner and trainer and the oldest jockey in the race 54 year old Mr John Thorne was not going to spoil this amazing fairytale in sporting history. When Bob and Aldaniti crossed the line first, Bob knew he had achieved the impossible and gave cancer sufferers all over the world hope at last, Bob and Aldaniti would shortly retire, where Bob would dedicate his life by raising millions and millions of pounds to a cancer trust calling it The Bob Champion Cancer Trust and was knighted by her majesty the queen with an MBE, his Trust has saved millions of people from Cancer and a fine reminder that life is too precious to take for granted.