1994 Grand National – Full Finishing Results
Date: 9 April 1994
Course: Aintree Racecourse
Going: Heavy
Distance: 4 miles 4 furlongs 856 yards
Runners: 36
Finishers: 6
Winning Time: 10 minutes 18.8 seconds
| Position | Horse | Jockey | Trainer | Owner | Age | Weight | SP | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Miinnehoma | Richard Dunwoody | Martin Pipe | Freddie Starr | 11 | 10-08 | 16/1 | Won by 1¼ lengths |
| 2nd | Just So | Simon Burrough | John Edwards | The Bostock Family | 11 | 10-03 | 20/1 | 20 lengths behind |
| 3rd | Moorcroft Boy | Adrian Maguire | David Nicholson | T.J. Price | 9 | 10-00 | 5/1 F | 25 lengths behind |
| 4th | Ebony Jane | Liam Cusack | Peter McCreery | Mrs. Anne Butler | 9 | 10-01 | 25/1 | 9 lengths behind |
| 5th | Fiddlers Pike | Mrs. Rosemary Henderson (Amateur) | Simon Tindall | Mrs. Rosemary Henderson | 13 | 10-00 | 100/1 | A distance |
| 6th | Roc De Prince (FRA) | Jonothan Lower | John Edwards | Peter Savill | 11 | 10-00 | 100/1 | Last to finish |
- Winner: Miinnehoma (trained by Martin Pipe, owned by Freddie Starr)
- Winning Jockey: Richard Dunwoody
- Winning Margin: 1¼ lengths over Just So
- Favourite: Moorcroft Boy (5/1) – finished 3rd
- Prize for 1st Place: £115,606
In the wake of the infamous ‘Race That Never Was’ in 1993, in 1994, for the first time in a decade, the Grand National attracted fewer than the then-maximum 40 runners. Just 39 entries stood their ground overnight and, with the going at Aintree rendered ‘heavy’ by torrential rain, three late withdrawals reduced the final number of starters to 36. For once, there was no previous winner in the field and the market was headed by confirmed mudlark Moorcroft Boy, trained by David Nicholson and ridden by Adrian Maguire.
Amid heightened security at Aintree, the favourite made a decent showing, too, leading over the second-last fence and only weakening from the elbow, halfway up the run-in, to finish third, beaten 21¼ lengths by the winner. Victory, through, went to Miinnehoma, owned by comedian Freddie Starr, trained by Martin Pipe and ridden by Richard Dunwoody. Sent off at 16/1 after finishing seventh in the Cheltenham Gold Cup on his previous start, the 11-year-old cruised past the weakening Moorcroft Boy on the run-in and ran on under pressure to hold off the renewed challenge of Just So in the closing stages and win by 1¼ lengths.
Just So, owned and trained by Henry Cole and ridden by Simon Burrough, had finished fast when sixth in the 1992 Grand National, from 17lb out of the handicap but, from a further 5lb out of the handicap this time around, did remarkably well to finish as close as he did to the winner. Just six horses completed the course, with Ebony Jane 25 lengths behind Moorcoft Boy in fourth, Fiddlers Pickle – ridden by ‘The Galloping Granny’, Rosemary Henderson – nine lengths further back in fifth and Roc De Prince a distance behind in sixth and last place. Unsurprisingly, the winning time was a rather pedestrian 10 minutes and 18.8 seconds, the slowest since 1955.
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