Per the goof: "The horses are shown turning right during the race. All turns on the Grand National course are made to the left." During the 7-1/2 minute race, the horses look to me like they turn to the left. Or there may be a small segment during the race (a little over 6 minutes into the race) when the horses appear to start to turn to the right. Can someone else explain the goof?
shareIn my opinion, it's not a goof. In England, horse races are run in the opposite direction than in America. In other words, the horses run clockwise around a track in England, like at Ascot; but in America, like in the Kentucky Derby, they run counter-clockwise. All turns around an oval horsetrack would be made to the right if the horses were running clockwise as they do in England. They would make only LEFT turns if they were running counter-clockwise as they do in America.
THAT said, perhaps steeplechase courses are different. Perhaps they don't follow an oval layout but go all over the place, thus resulting in both left and right turns. But I have seen footage of actual Grand National races and in the clips I've seen, the horses are running from right to left across my TV screen, thus supporting my right turn claim.
The course at Aintree where the Grand National is run is a kind of rounded corners triangle shape. The horses would be making left turns, the race goes twice around the course.
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