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A list of horses which have achieved a first-four placing in the Grand National on more than one occasion. Shading indicates a horse placed in an unofficial 1830s precursor or a wartime substitute race.
The first official running of the "Grand National" is now considered to be the 1839 Grand Liverpool Steeplechase. There had been a similar race for several years prior to this, but its status as an official Grand National was revoked some time between 1862 and 1873.
Battleship, the only horse to have won both the Grand National and the American Grand National, and his jockey Bruce Hobbs, who remains the youngest jockey to win the Aintree race; George Dockeray, who alongside Ginger McCain and Fred Rimell trained four National winners, starting with Lottery in the first official Grand National in 1839. [114]
Noble Yeats took victory in 2022, becoming the first seven-year-old horse to win in more than 80 years. 40 runners will be selected to tackle the four-and-a-bit mile course, with a longer list of ...
The most prestigious race on the National Hunt calendar will be hotly contested
In 1843 he turned the 'National' from a weight-for-age race into a handicap. The race officially became the 'Grand National' in 1847; the following year Topham took on the lease of the course from Lord Sefton. [4] The Grand National, and with it Aintree racecourse grew in popularity throughout the second half of the 19th century.
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Pages in category "Grand National" The following 195 pages are in this category, out of 195 total. ... List of Grand National first four placings; T. The Chair ...