2013 Grand National Oscar Time finished in fourth and Rare Bob was fifth. Seventeen runners completed the course. Sue Smith became only the third woman to train a Grand National winner, after Jenny Pitman (1983 and 1995) and Venetia Williams (2009). Smith said afterward: "I knew the ground was right for him and hoped everything else was. He stayed down the middle and had a bit of luck in running. He didn't have a lot of weight and that helped, too." Auroras Encore was jockey Ryan Mania's first ride in the National. He said after his victory: "There are no words to describe
There was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe There was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe "There was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe" is a popular English language nursery rhyme, with a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19132. Debates over its meaning and origin have largely centered on attempts to match the old woman with historical female figures who have had large families, although King George II (1683–1760) has also been proposed as the rhyme's subject. The most common version of the rhyme is: The earliest printed version in Joseph Ritson's "Gammer Gurton's Garland" in 1794 has the coarser last line: Many