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  • The Field

    Art in the field

    Jun 10, 2021 3 minutes

    RED RUM liked to race with his ears pinned flat back for aero-dynamic advantage, but as he crossed the line for his third Grand National win in 1977 he pricked them forward for a split second in an equine V for victory sign to fans and doubters alike.

    Sculptor Philip Blacker had first come across Rummy a few years earlier. He remembers: “We were going down to Becher’s the second time. Crisp was a fence in front and I was upsides Red Rum, and I looked across at Brian Fletcher on Red Rum

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