Michael Rhodes
2020-10-02 23:40:29 UTC
_. Michael Oliver, the trainer who scaled the sport's greatest height by saddling Aintree regular West Tip to win the Grand National in 1986, has died at the age of 70.
Oliver, who retired in 1991, was based in Worcestershire and also enjoyed success with the prolific Master H, but the finest hour of his career came in the spring of 1986 when West Tip, having his second start in jumping's best-known event having fallen the previous year, prevailed under Richard Dunwoody.
The gelding, who ran in the colours of Peter Luff, a property developer from Wokingham, Berkshire, went on to finish fourth, fourth, second and tenth in the next four Nationals.
Oliver, who retired in 1991, was based in Worcestershire and also enjoyed success with the prolific Master H, but the finest hour of his career came in the spring of 1986 when West Tip, having his second start in jumping's best-known event having fallen the previous year, prevailed under Richard Dunwoody.
The gelding, who ran in the colours of Peter Luff, a property developer from Wokingham, Berkshire, went on to finish fourth, fourth, second and tenth in the next four Nationals.