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Australian Racing: The Grand National Hurdle

By Kristen Manning

Victoria’s version of The Grand National Hurdle, a race which boasts a 136 history, has seen many changes in recent times – switching from its traditional venue at Flemington to Sandown.

In 2015 run at Warrnambool whilst work took place at Sandown, it is probably the only feature race to have been run on some many different tracks!

Of the 16 fences which make up the National course six of the jumps have become famous in their own right. Becher’s Brook, Valentines’ Brook, The Chair, Canal Turn and Foinavon are names which are known throughout the world. These fences are woven into the very fabric of the Grand National race. This is the water jump and is a long jump rather than a high jump. This will often catch a horse unaware after jumping the chair but does not bring down that many horses. It is one of the two grand national fences which is only jumped once on the first circuit.

Which detracts nothing from the quality of the race, a tough test with an honour roll that includes some of the great Australian jumpers.

As we prepare for this Sunday’s edition, one that has attracted a field of ten horses from Victoria’s leading jumping stables, it is timely to have a look back at some of the great Grand National winners.

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An historic stand-out is the 1888 version won by Malua, a remarkable race for a couple of reasons – firstly because the winner was an entire, secondly as he was ridden to victory by his owner John Inglis and thirdly because the horse had five years previously won the Melbourne Cup!

Generally acknowledged as the most versatile high class horse ever to race in Australia Malua, whose career kicked off with three wins in Tasmania at two (then named Bagot), also won two feature sprints (the Newmarket Handicap and the Oakleigh Plate) as well as an Australian Cup, an Adelaide Cup, a Geelong Cup and a Melbourne (Mackinnon) Stakes.

And to put a seal on his great career, Malua went on to sire a number of stakes winners including a Melbourne Cup winner (Malvolio), a Caulfield Cup winner (Ingliston) and a Newmarket Handicap winner (Maluma).

The following year’s Grand National was won by just as remarkable a horse, the incredible Redleap. A horse who wrote his name in history books despite racing just seven times; his career hindered by recurring bouts of laminitis. He ovecame that significant setback to win the Grand National on two occasions; the first with 61kg, the second three years later with 74 1/2kg. Which was somewhat of a light impost compared to the 84kg and 88kg he carried to steeplechasing feature victories!

Don Quixote carried all the more winning the 1884 Grand National with 76kg whilst in 1930 the champion Mosstrooper took out the race with 74 1/2 kg, also taking out the Grand National Steeplechase.

How Many Jumps In The Grand National

In 1943 tough mare Claudette claimed a Grand National and like Malua she was also high class on the flat, winning three stakes races and finishing third in Spearfelt’s Melbourne Cup.

The early 1970s saw Robert win a pair of Grand Nationals, an achievement equalled by Airmond in 1980 and 1982 and by Sir Agrifo in 1987 and 1989 – the era of Jim Houlahan domination.

What a remarkable story Jim Houlahan was, not embarking on his training career until the age of 57, from thereon cheering home seven Grand National winners – one of many feats that saw him inducted into the Australian Racing Hall Of Fame in 2004.

One of his finest jumpers, Sir Agrifo competed in no less than five Grand National Hurdles.

The year after Sir Agrifo’s second Grand National success Sharp As won the big race, a horse whose great natural talent made him a yardstick, this statement so often heard… “the best since Sharp As.”

2002 saw Zabenz by champion stallion Zabeel claim victory by ten lengths. And he took that form with him overseas, a couple of months later winning a feature steeplechase at Saratoga.

Five years later Some Are Bent was a dominant winner and his brother Black And Bent made it a family affair winning the 2011 and 2013 editions, the second of those at his final outing… going out in style!

Another story will be told on Sunday, be sure to tune in.

Kristen Manning is a freelance racing writer and pedigree analyst based in Melbourne. A keen owner/breeder who loves every aspect of thoroughbred horse racing, she has written two books focusing on the deeds of Fields Of Omagh and Prince Of Penzance.

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Grand National Quiz I

1. How many fences does the winning horse have to jump in the grand national?


2. On which racecourse is The Grand National annually held?
3. Which fence, named after a soldier, have jockeys compared to 'jumping off the edge of the world.'?
4. Which horse (ridden by jockey Davy Russell) won both the 2018 and 2019 National?
5. In the 1956 Grand National which horse famously belly flopped forty yards from the line in what was a certain victory?
6. Red Rum won the Grand National in which three years?
7. Can you name the trainer of Red Rum?
8. Who became the first woman to train a Grand National winner in 1983? And can you name her horse?
9. Which year's Grand National was postponed after two coded bomb threats were received from the Provisional IRA?
10. Who was said to be the greatest jockey to have never won the Aintree Grand National until he won it in 2010 after 15 attempts?
11. Name the famous owner of Miinnehoma, the winning horse in 1994?
12. What was remarkable about Marcus Armytage, the winning jockey of Mr Frisk in 1990?
13. How many horses lined-up at the start of the 2019 race? And which trainer broke the record by entering 11 horses?
14. How old do horses have to be to be elligible to run in the Grand National under changes made to improve safety?
15. What links actor Steve McQueen to the 2000 winner?

Answers:

1. 30 fences
2. Aintree Racecourse (Liverpool)
3. Becher's Brooke
4. Tiger Roll
5. Devon Loch (owned by the Queen Mother and rode by jockey (and later author) Dick Francis)




6. 1973, 1974, and 1977
7. Ginger McCain
8. Jenny Pitman. Corbiere was her horse.
9. 1997
10. A P McCoy or Tony McCoy (Don't Push It was the name of his horse)
11. Freddie Starr
12. He was an amateur jockey (a journalist by profession). He also won in a record Grand National time!
13. 40 horses. The trainer is Gordon Elliot.
14. 7 years of age or older
15. Papillon (the name of the winner and also an iconic role played by Steve McQueen)

Grand National Quiz II

1. In the 1967 Grand National, most of the field were hampered or dismounted at the 23rd fence, allowing which 100/1 rank-outsider to win?
2. Which jockey recovered from cancer to win the 1981 Grand National? Can you name his horse? And which actor portrayed him in a 1984 film?
3. Which company sponsored the Grand National from 1984 to 1991?
4. Which horse won the 1993 Grand National?
5. In 2009, which horse became the longest-priced winner of the National for 42 years, winning by 12 lengths, at odds of 100/1?
6. Each year branches of which tree are sourced and transported from forests in the Lake District for use in building the fences?
7. Which horse posted the course's fastest winning time in 1990?
8. Which trainer won the Grand National from 1953 to 1955 with three different horses and is often dubbed 'The greatest trainer of the 20th century'?
9. Which fence positioned in front of the grandstand, is the tallest on the course?
10. In 1982, Dick Saunders became the oldest winning jockey on Grittar, but how old was he: (a)39, (b)43, or (c)48?
11. Complete the names of the following winning horses: (a)Hallo ..., (b)Neptune ..., and (c) Earth ....?

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Answers:

1. Foinavon
2. Bob Champion. The horse was Aldaniti. John Hurt was the actor.
3. Seagram
4. None! The race was declared void after a series of incidents and a false start that was never stopped.
5. Mon Mome
6. Spruce tree
7. Mr Frisk
8. Vincent O'Brien
9. The Chair at 5 feet 3 inches (1.60 m)
10. (c) 48
11. (a) Hallo Dandy (1984), (b)Neptune Collonges (2012), and (c)Earth Summit (1998)

Grand National Trivia III

1. In which year was the race first run: (a)1789, (b)1839, (c) 1879, or (d)1899?
2. How many fences on the course are negotiated only once? Can you name them?
3. Name the first female to compete in the race? And in 1982, who became the first woman to complete the course?
4. Fence number 9 and 25 was renamed after a horse that reputedly jumped it hind legs first in 1840, can you give the name?
5. Which horse was famously 15 lengths ahead of Red Rum in the 1973 race, but carrying 23 pounds more weight began to tire badly and was pipped on the line?
6. Can you name the horse racing commentator for the BBC from 1947 to 1997 who described some of the greatest moments in the history of the Grand National?
7. Seagram finished sponsoring the event in 1991 but can you remember which horse won that year?
8. The 1928 race saw the lowest number of finishers. It remains the record but how many horses finished the race that year?
9. Which fence is notable for the sharp left turn that the runners have to take as soon as they have negotiated the fence?
10. Ginger McCain is the trainer that won three times with Red Rum, but with which horse did he also win with in 2004?
11. Which jockey won the race three times: in 1968 on Red Alligator, and on Red Rum in 1973 and 1974?
12. The 1980 winner was named after a mountain, name the horse?

Answers:

1. (b)1839




2. Two. The Chair and The Water Jump.
3. Charlotte Brew (in 1977). And Geraldine Rees completed the course in 1982.
4. Valentine's
5. Crisp
6. Sir Peter O'Sullevan
7. Seagram was also the name of the winning horse!
8. Two horses
9. The Canal Turn
10. Amberleigh House
11. Brian Fletcher
12. Ben Nevis

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