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The most successful horse in the event's history is Brown Lad, a three-time winner in the 1970s. Since 1991, the distance of the race has been 3 miles and 5 furlongs; previously it had been 3 miles and 4 furlongs. The Irish Grand National was sponsored by Irish Distillers under various titles for many years up to 2010.
The Grand National was a greyhound racing competition held annually at various tracks throughout Ireland. The race was inaugurated in 1928 at Shelbourne Park and was shared between the two Dublin tracks of Shelbourne and Harold's Cross Stadium before being switched to the old Cork (Western Road) Greyhound Stadium just before World War II .
Here is a full list of all the winners of Grand National. There were no winners between 1916-1918 because of World War I, 1941-1945 due to World War II, 1993 due to a series of false starts and 2020 due to COVID-19.
Vulgan was a leading National Hunt sire, producing winners of the Champion Hurdle, Cheltenham Gold Cup and three Grand Nationals. [2]: 12 Foinavon’s dam was Ecilace, a nineteen-year-old broodmare who had never raced but had already foaled Umm, the winner of the 1955 Irish Grand National.
Irish Grand National: 3 1975, 1976, 1978 [257] Burrough Hill Lad: Gainsborough Chase: 3 1984, 1985, [n 13] 1986 [258] Charles Dickens Grand Military Gold Cup: 3 1970, 1971, 1972 [citation needed] Chocolate Royal Von Doussa Steeplechase 3 1978, 1979, 1980 [259] Clarion Call Wanganui Steeplechase 3 1937, 1938, 1940 [citation needed] Cloughtaney ...
The pair dominated National Hunt racing in the mid-sixties, winning the Irish Grand National, the King George VI Chase, two Hennessy Gold Cups, three Cheltenham Gold Cups and the Whitbread Cup. Taaffe was born into a racing family. His father, Tom Taaffe, was a trainer who saddled the winner of the 1958 Grand National, Mr. What.
E.S.B. was an Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse which won the 1956 Grand National. [1]E.S.B. was a dark bay gelding bred in County Kildare by Sheila Bourke. . Trained by Fred Rimell, E.S.B. was ridden by jockey Dave Dick in the 1956 running of the steeplechase at Aintree Racecour
aintree.co.uk [permanent dead link ] – Grand National Media Guide. archive.org – Read Online: "A History of Steeple-Chasing" (1901). archive.org – Read Online: "Heroes and Heroines of the Grand National" (1907). bbc.co.uk – National finishes year-by-year. galopp-sieger.de – The Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree.