Did the commentator get over excited because they were the owner of the winner?
No. Sorry.
The answer is that in 1952 Mirabel Topham, the owner of Aintree, got into dispute with the BBC. She arranged for friends to give the commentary which the BBC, probably reluctantly and possibly under pressure from above, broadcast to the nation. The commentary was quite extraordinarily inept, with the commentators being confused, garbled and wrong. Most famously they gave out that
Teal fell at the first fence, when it got through and won. It used to be broadcast occasionally, at least in part, and was a joy to listen to.
It was in 1956 that
Devon Loch, the Queen Mother’s horse, spreadeagled itself just short of the winning post when well ahead of the field and failed to finish. The jockey was a chap called Dick Francis. I wonder what happened to him?
The tic-tac man tells me that Steve M70 has three correct and should set the next question.