Grand National Results

2018 Grand National Result

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Grand National 2018 Result

The 2018 Grand National, which took place on April 14, 2018, was run on unusually heavy going, a fact that was reflected by the winning time of 9 minutes and 40.10 seconds, which was the slowest since the pedestrian 11 minutes 0.10 seconds recorded by Red Marauder in 2001, when the ground was bottomless. Two withdrawals on the morning of the race reduced the number of starters to 38, resulting the in the smallest field since 1999, when just 32 went to post. Interestingly, for the first time since 1988, when Gee Armytage, Penny Ffitch-Heyes and Venetia Williams all rode in the National, three female jockeys, namely Rachael Blackmore, Bryony Frost and Katie Walsh, participated.

Total Recall, trained by Willie Mullins, was sent off 7/1 favourite, but made a series of mistakes and was a spent force before the race began in earnest, eventually pulling up before the second-last fence. Another Mullins-trained runner, Pleasant Company, ridden by his nephew, David, fared much better, making up the best part of six lengths from the ‘Elbow’, halfway up the run-in, to go down by a head in a driving finish.

Victory, though, went to the 10/1 joint second-favourite, Tiger Roll, trained by Gordon Elliott and ridden by Davy Russell. Fresh from his first win in the Glenfarclas Cross Country Chase at the Cheltenham Festival – a race he would eventually win three times – Tiger Roll moved into contention, travelling strongly, three from home and looked all over the winner when taking a six-length lead on the run-in. At the line, though, he was all out to hold on by the aforementioned head.

2019 Grand National Results

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Grand National 2019 Result

The 2019 renewal of the Grand National took place, on good to soft going, on April 6, 2019 and the world-famous steeplechase was won, for the second year running, by Tiger Roll, trained by Gordon Elliott and ridden by Davy Russell. In fact, the diminutive nine-year-old was one of 11 runners for the County Meath handler, who beat the previous record for the most entries in a single renewal of the Grand National set by Martin Pipe in 2001.

As he had done in 2018, Tiger Roll won the Glenfarclas Cross Country Chase at the Cheltenham Festival on his last start before the Grand National and, despite being 9lb higher in the weights than the previous year, was sent off 4/1 favourite at Aintree. The market support proved well justified as Tiger Roll breezed into the lead between the last two fences, readily drew clear and only had to be ridden out in the closing stages to beat 66/1 outsider Magic Of Light by two and three-quarter lengths.

Thus, Tiger Roll became the first horse since the legendary Red Rum, in 1974, to win back-to-back renewals of the Grand National. He was denied the chance of a hat-trick when the Grand National was cancelled, due to Covid-19, in 2020 and withdrawn by his owner, Michael O’Leary, in both 2021 and 2022, with O’Leary variously describing his official handicap mark as “patently unfair”, “absurd” and “ridiculous”. Tiger Roll was retired from racing in March 2022, after being beaten, rather ironically, by his stable companion Delta Work, also owned by O’Leary, in the Glenfarclas Cross Country Chase at the Cheltenham Festival

2020 Grand National Results

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Grand National 2020 Results

Noteable in that due to covid, unfortunately only a Virtual Grand National took place in 2020. A field of 40 horses likely to have participated in the real event took part.  Algorithmically decided the winner was y Potters Corner. There was also a further virtual race made up of the legend of previous Grand Nationals. The result of this saw Red Rum as the winner.

2021 Grand National Result

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Grand National 2021 Results

Saturday, April 10, 2021 was a red-letter day in the history of the Grand National for several reasons. Firstly, following the cancellation of the 2020 Grand National due to the Covid-19 pandemic, with lockdown restrictions still in place, the race took place behind closed doors for the first time in its history, which dates back to the first half of the nineteenth century. Secondly, the winner, Minella Times, owned by John McManus and trained by Henry de Bromhead, was ridden by Rachael Blackmore, who thus became the first female jockey to win the world-famous steeplechase.

Minella Times arrived at Aintree at the top of his game and, having reportedly schooled well over National-style fences at home, was sent off 11/1 fourth favourite. The eight-year-old led narrowly turning for home, extended his lead to two lengths at the final fence and was ridden out to beat stable companion Balko des Flos by six-and-a-half lengths, thereby giving De Bromhead a notable 1-2 in the race. Only 15 of the 40 runners completed the course, but Irish-trained horses filled the first five places.

The Grand National marked the culmination of a profitable three weeks or so for De Bromhead and Blackmore. At the Cheltenham Festival the previous month, De bromhead became the first trainer to win the Champion Hurdle, Queen Mother Champion Chase and Cheltenham Gold Cup in the same year, while Blackmore became the first female jockey to win the Champion Hurdle and, with six wins altogether, to be leading jockey at the meeting.