Bob Champion remembers Red Rum's Grand National hat-trick: 'He always brightened up when he got to Liverpool'

In part one of our video feature with Bob Champion, the jockey who himself won the Grand National in 1981 on Aldaniti remembers the extraordinary day in 1977 when Red Rum completed his unique hat-trick in the great race.

Champion remembers how Red Rum was "a little horse who just took to the fences ...and always had petrol in the tank at the end".

Red Rum's remarkable feat takes on special significance this year on the 40th anniversary of that day and Champion says: "Red Rum used to get into a lovely rhythm... he used to just appear at Becher's the last time and the race was over."

No horse has even won the National twice, let alone three times since then. Indeed, it has become unusual for a horse to win any kind of race after winning the four-and-a-quarter mile marathon.

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