Flintoff Hopes to Hit Race Rivals for Six at the Welsh National

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VALE of Glamorgan trainer Tim Vaughan has high hopes of landing Wales' most famous horse race - the Coral Welsh National - at Chepstow Racecourse on December 28 with Flintoff, a former inmate of Venitia Williams' yard.

The last time a horse trained in the Vale won this race was in 1965 when former Welsh point-topointer Norther was successful. The first Welsh Grand National, as it used to be known, was held at Cardiff's Ely Racecourse in 1895 and was won by Deerstalker, trained by the legendary Tom Cannon, and enterprisingly ridden by George Mawson.

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Flintoff Hopes to Hit Race Rivals for Six at the Welsh National

The following year, 1896, 40,000 racegoers flocked to the course to see the 1892 Aintree "National" winner race against the 1893 Aintree hero Cloister and it...

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