Silver Birch (horse)

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Silver Birch

Sire	Clearly Bust
Dam	All Gone
Damsire	Giolla Mear
Sex	Gelding
Foaled	1997
Country	Ireland
Colour	Bay
Breeder	J Power and Mrs Power
Owner	Brian Walsh
Trainer	Gordon Elliott
Record	21: 7-3-2
Earnings	₤537,504
Major Racing Wins, Awards and Honours
Major Racing Wins
Becher Handicap Chase (2004) Welsh National (2004) Grand National (2007)
Infobox last updated on: April 16, 2007.

Silver Birch (b. 10 April 1997) is an Irish-trained thoroughbred racehorse, owned by Brian Walsh of County Kildare. Ridden by Robbie Power and trained by 29 year-old Gordon Elliott,^[1] Silver Birch was the winner of the 2007 John Smith's Grand National at Aintree Racecourse, run on Saturday 14th April 2007.^[2] He was Walsh and Elliott's first runner in the race.^[3]

Silver Birch had previously won the Welsh National in 2004^[4], and had been a highly favoured horse coming into the 2005 Grand National under a previous trainer (Paul Nicholls), but a leg injury ruled him out from the race.^[5] He competed in the 2006 race but was hampered and fell at the Chair, the largest fence on the course. His starting price that day, in dramatic contrast to the enthusiasm he'd engendered the previous year, had been 40-1^[6]