Mon Mome

Mon Mome
Sire Passing Sale
Grandsire No Pass No Sale
Dam Etoile Du Lion
Damsire New Target
Sex Gelding
Foaled 29th April 2000
Country France
Colour Bay
Record 33:5-8-3
Earnings £614,286
Major wins
Grand National (2009)
Boylepoker.com Chase (2008)
Horse (Equus ferus caballus)
Last updated on April 4, 2009

Mon Mome is an AQPS racehorse, which won the 2009 John Smith's Grand National at Aintree Racecourse, run on April 4, 2009. It was ridden by Liam Treadwell and trained by Venetia Williams. He won by 12-lengths at odds of 100-1, making Mon Mome the largest-priced winner since Foinavon in 1967.[1]

Mon Mome was victorious in the second of three attempts to win the Grand National, having finished tenth in 2008 and parting company with rider Aidan Coleman in the 2010 race at the twenty-sixth of the thirty fences.

As coincidence would have it, his victory in the 2009 race was exactly a Century since the previous victory by a French bred horse in the Grand National. Mon Mome is an elegant horse much loved by the public. [2]

References

  1. ^ "Grand National 2009". BBC. 2009-04-04. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/horse_racing/7982075.stm. Retrieved 2009-04-04. 
  2. ^ [1] Mon Mome insider profile