| Pos | Horse | Age | SP | Jockey | Trainer | Owner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Red Marauder | 11 | 33/1 | Richard Guest | Norman Mason | Norman Mason |
| 2 | Smarty | 8 | 16/1 | Timmy Murphy | Mark Pitman | Mrs T. Brown |
| 3 | Blowing Wind | 8 | 16/1 | A. P. McCoy | Martin Pipe | P. A. Deal |
| 4 | Papillon | 10 | 14/1 | Ruby Walsh | Ted Walsh | Mrs J. Maxwell Moran |
| 5 | Beau | 10 | 33/1 | Carl Llewellyn | Nigel Twiston-Davies | Paul Beck |
| 6 | Moral Support | 9 | 100/1 | Robert Widger | Venetia Williams | Mrs N. Beaumont |
| 7 | Brave Highlander | 11 | 100/1 | Tom Jenks | Len Lungo | John Elliot |
| 8 | Paris Pike | 7 | 14/1 | Tony Dobbin | Ferdy Murphy | David Armstrong |
| 9 | Moral Justice | 10 | 100/1 | Seamus Durack | Jenny Pitman | Susan Magnier |
| 10 | Young Kenny | 9 | 12/1 | Brendan Powell | Peter Beaumont | J. R. Dodd |
| 11 | Inis Cara | 10 | 100/1 | Jamie Osborne | Charlie Mann | Mrs L. A. Whitehead |
Grand National 2001 results
The 2001 Grand National took place, on heavy going, on April 7, 2001 and proved to be the most memorable renewal for many a year, before or since. Run during an epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease, which had already caused the cancellation of the Cheltenham Festival, the race featured a maximum 40 runners, of which just four completed the course, two of them having been remounted.
The race was won by Red Marauder, owned and officially trained by Norman Mason, although his assistant, Richard Guest, who also rode the 11-year-old at Aintree, actually did the training. A 33/1 chance at the ‘off’, Red Marauder made numerous mistakes but, having taken the lead from the weakening Smarty – the only other runner to complete the course without incident – at the second-last fence, was driven well clear in the closing stages to win by a distance. Smarty, in turn, finished a further distance clear of the remounted pair Blowing Wind and Papillon, who refused and unseated rider at the first open ditch on the second circuit and essentially complete the course in their own time.
At a rain-sodden Aintree, a succession of earlier casualties was followed by a pile-up at the Canal Turn on the first circuit – caused by the riderless Paddy’s Return, who had unseated rider at the third fence – such that, heading out onto the second circuit, just eight horses were still standing. The late Alistair Down subsequently described the decision to go ahead with the Grand National as “gutless, witless and utterly reckless.”