| Pos | Horse | Age | SP | Jockey | Trainer | Owner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One For Arthur | 8 | 14/1 | Derek Fox | Lucinda Russell | The Two Golf Widows (Debbie Pinnington & Belinda McClung) |
| 2 | Cause Of Causes | 9 | 16/1 | Jamie Codd | Gordon Elliott | J. P. McManus |
| 3 | Saint Are | 11 | 25/1 | Davy Russell | Tom George | David Fox |
| 4 | Blaklion | 8 | 8/1F | Noel Fehily | Nigel Twiston-Davies | Darren & Annaley Yates |
| 5 | Gas Line Boy | 11 | 50/1 | Robbie Dunne | Ian Williams | The Stonehenge Partnership |
| 6 | Vieux Lion Rouge | 8 | 12/1 | Tom Scudamore | David Pipe | Professor Caroline Tisdall |
| 7 | Lord Windermere | 11 | 33/1 | Leighton Aspell | Jim Culloty | Dr Ronan Lambe |
| 8 | Regal Encore | 9 | 80/1 | Robbie Power | Anthony Honeyball | J. P. McManus |
| 9 | Pleasant Company | 9 | 11/1 | Ruby Walsh | Willie Mullins | Malcolm Denmark |
| 10 | Houblon Des Obeaux | 10 | 50/1 | Charlie Deutsch | Venetia Williams | Mrs P. A. Deal |
| 11 | Ballynagour | 11 | 100/1 | Tom O’Brien | David Pipe | Professor Caroline Tisdall |
| 12 | O’Faolains Boy | 10 | 66/1 | Paul Townend | Rebecca Curtis | The Crossed Fingers Partnership |
| 13 | Rogue Angel | 9 | 20/1 | Ger Fox | Mouse Morris | Gigginstown House Stud |
| 14 | Thunder And Roses | 9 | 50/1 | Mark Enright | Mouse Morris | Gigginstown House Stud |
| 15 | Gas Line Boy (d?) | — | — | — | — | — |
| 15 | Double Shuffle | 7 | 50/1 | Adrian Heskin | Tom George | Crossed Fingers Partnership |
| 16 | Stellar Notion | 8 | 66/1 | Jonathan Burke | Paul Stafford | J. Stafford |
| 17 | Doctor Harper | 9 | 66/1 | David Noonan | David Pipe | Professor Caroline Tisdall |
| 18 | Highland Lodge | 11 | 33/1 | Henry Brooke | Jimmy Moffatt | The Highland Lodge Partnership |
| 19 | Cocktails At Dawn | 9 | 66/1 | Nico de Boinville | Nicky Henderson | Lady Tennant |
Grand National 2017 Results
“And Scottish flags are flying high!” or so exclaimed lead commentator Richard Hoiles at the climax of the 2017 Grand National, which was broadcast live on ITV (Independent Television) for the first time. The cause of Hoiles’ excitement was the fact that the winner, One For Arthur, trained by Lucinda Russell in Kinross, central Scotland, became just the second horse trained north of the border to win the Grand National, after Rubstic, trained by John Leadbetter in Denholm, near Hawick, in the Scottish Borders, in 1979.
Owned by Belinda McClung and Deborah Thomson, collectively known, for racing purposes, as ‘Two Golf Widows’ and ridden by Derek Fox, One For Arthur had already enjoyed a successful season, winning twice and finishing a staying-on fifth, beaten just three lengths, in the Becher Chase – over a seemingly inadequate three-and-a-quarter miles on the Grand National Course at Aintree – in between times. Consequently, he was sent off 14/1 fifth favourite for the Grand National proper and never really gave his supporters an anxious moment.
Always travelling and jumping well, One For Arthur led between the last two fences and had the race in safe keeping from the famous ‘Elbow’, halfway up the run-in, staying on strongly in the closing stages to win by four-and-a-half lengths. Winning jockey Fox had spent three weeks at Jack Berry House, the Injured Jockeys’ Fund facility in Malton, North Yorkshire, recovering from a broken wrist and collarbone sustained in a heavy fall in a novice chase at Carlisle the previous month. He had only been passed fit to ride by a British Horseracing Authority (BHA) doctor on the previous Monday and later admitted, “It was touch and go.”