They're inside the final furlong now, Black Secret coming to challenge with Specify on the far side Sandy Sprite in between the two, it's Johnny Cook getting up on Specify...

Gay Buccaneer was very unlucky having been the clear leader at the Canal turn on the first circuit, only to be interfered with by a loose horse which resulted in him going from first to last, and finishing tenth.

[1] [2] [3] A special Grand National Grandstand was presented by David Coleman on the BBC for the twelfth year.

Three commentators were used this year, Peter O'Sullevan, Raleigh Gilbert and Julian Wilson.

John Cook retired from racing the following year on medical advice and emigrated to Australia where he died after a long illness in 1999[4]