Aintree

Um, did you ever get to the races in your playing days?

Uh, Aintree a couple times.

Uh, Liverpool, Cheltenham came in.

I'm not a, I'm not a horse guy or race guy, but the day, the days out were very, uh, very good.

Mm-hmm

... took place in the 1994 Grand National Steeplechase race in Aintree, England, but it did not complete the course.

Oh.

Sorry about that.

I'm LBC's

Chris Chambers on Keeble Drive in Aintree, back where Andy Burnham grew up, finding out what people made of his speech.

Yes, and a very moving, and understandably it always is with party leaders and prime ministers for that matter.

We heard a little bit about his roots and Chris Chambers' chamber is investigating those.

And if you were listening yesterday, you know I was in Liverpool in readiness for that.

And I was picked up on how much it made it a personal statement as well, hearing the background of the Prime Minister.

Chris Chambers, LBC's North West correspondent, is on a road in Aintree, Liverpool.

And Chamberlain will explain why.

Steeplechase racing involves jumping over fences and ditches on a turf course.

The Grand National, held at Aintree in England, is the most famous steeplechase in the world and includes 30 fences over a course of about four and a quarter miles.

Harness racing is a form of racing in which the horse pulls a driver seated in a lightweight cart called a sulky.

The horse must maintain either a trot or a pace throughout the race.

Come around with a trolley

... sort of day one at Aintree.

I just think, like-

Right

They can make a higher yield elsewhere.

And as individual season ticket holders are no longer renewed because people, they move, they pass away, their circumstances change, there's a fair chance amongst that particular section of clubs that there's the club the season ticket won't be given to somebody else instead it will be packaged up as an experience and it will be you know I've always said I've seen this in Manchester in particular I'm certainly aware that happens in Liverpool that you get ferried out to to Aintree and you sit in a lounge in Aintree and Ian Rush comes on, cracks a few gags, Steve McManaman might be there, some former players, legends, and you get your photograph taken with the Champions League trophy, with the Premier League trophy.

You get a burger and a bun and a pint and you pay £199 or £249 and you think it's fantastic.

So I say burger, he walks in.

Yes, you'd have a broken foreleg with a bone like that.

You know, sir, at the time you almost hit the rail at Aintree.

He had a great heart, that fellow.

The biggest in England.

far more malleable and if you pull back hard enough with that actually you can come straight through and out the other side so you have to learn to be far far more gentle.

We've had Norbeck come from Oxford yeah we've got people now coming up from the Marsden we've got someone coming hopefully from Liverpool Aintree kind of area.

Italy, Saudi Arabia.

Yeah