1843 Grand National
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The 1843 Grand Liverpool Steeplechase was the fifth annual running of a Handicap Steeple-chase, later to become known as the Grand National Steeplechase Horse race which took place at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool on Wednesday March 1st 1843 and attracted a field of sixteen runners
It was won by Vanguard, ridden by Tom Olliver, who became the first rider to win the race twice. Olliver was very fond of Vanguard and was later presented with the horse as a gift. When Vanguard died Olliver had the horse's hide used to make a sofa.
Favourite Peter Simple was pulled up by the distance judge and classed as distanced even though he completed the course. This was under a now defunct practice where a judge would pull up any horse who had not reached his location in front of the stands by the time the winner had finished the race.
1843 was the year the race became a handicap, with horses weighted according to their ability. In previous years they had all carried the same amount.[1]
[edit] Results
Winner: Vanguard, ridden by Tom Olliver and owned by George Stanhope, the 6th Earl of Chesterfield
Second: Nimrod, ridden by William Scott.
Third: Dragsman, ridden by John Crickmere.
Fourth: Claude Duval, ridden by Joe Tomblin.
Other finishers:
- 5th Goblin
- 6th Bucephalus
- 7th Lottery
Distanced:
- Peter Simple
- The Returned
[edit] Betting
3/1 Peter Simple
4/1 Lottery and The Returned
10/1 Dragsman, Goblin, Nimrod and Tinderbox.
12/1 Claude Duval and Vanguard
25/1 Bucephalus, Consul, Croxby, Redwing, The Romp, Teetotum and Victoria.
[edit] References
- www.hometown.aol.co.uk/captainbeecher/1843VANGUARD.html
