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5. By a Nose
Neptune Collonges’s unforgettable win in 2012. A race over four and a half miles, with forty horses jumping thirty fences, yet the winning distance just a matter of millimetres.
The story of Neptune Collonges’s unforgettable win in 2012. An extraordinary tale. A race over four and a half miles, with forty horses jumping thirty fences, yet the winning distance was just a matter of millimetres.
Presenter: Mike Hughes
Producer: Ian Kennedy
Originally broadcast on BBC Radio Merseyside.
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