1842 Grand National
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The 1842 Grand Liverpool Steeplechase was the fourth 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 2nd 1842 and attracted a field of fifteen runners.[1]
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[edit] Results
Winner: Gaylad, ridden by Tom Olliver, owned by Picadilly horse trader John Elmore, and trained by George Dockeray. Dockeray had already trained two previous winners, Lottery in 1839, and Jerry in 1840.
Second: Seventy Four, ridden by A Powell.
Third: Peter Simple, ridden by Robert Hunter.
Fourth: The Returned, ridden by W J Hope-Johnstone
Other finishers: 5th: Columbine
[edit] Details
Anonymous, Bangalore, Honesty, Satirist and Lucks All were all declared as distanced by the distance judge. This was a practice in the early years of the race where a judge would sit in a chair on a pedestal at a point on the run in and his role was to pull up any horse which had not reached his position by the time the winner passed the finishing post. The practice died out during the 1840s but the pedestal and chair stand to this day on the course beside the fence which today is also known as the chair.
There were fifteen runners. The 5/1 favourite, Lottery was forced to carry over a stone more than his rivals and was pulled up when very tired shortly after jumping Becher's Brook on the second circuit.
[edit] Betting
5/1 Lottery
6/1 Peter Simple and Seventy Four
7/1 Gaylad
8/1 Sam Weller
10/1 Consul and Lucks All
100/7 Satirist
15/1 The Returned
20/1 Banathlath and Bangalore
25/1 Anonymous, Columbine, Honesty and Lady Langford
[edit] References
- ^ www.hometown.aol.co.uk/captainbeecher/1842GAYLAD.html
