2005
BRUCE Hobbs, one of the great old-fashioned trainers and the youngest jockey ever to win the Grand National, died at home in Newmarket last Monday week. He was 84. Hobbs rode 40/1 chance Battleship to victory over the formidable Aintree fences in 1938 when only 17. His father Reg trained the winner as well.


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