1843 Grand National

1843 Grand National
Grand National
Location	Aintree
Date	1 March 1843
Winning horse	Vanguard
SP	12/1
Jockey	Tom Olliver
Owner	Lord Chesterfield
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The 1843 Grand Liverpool Steeplechase was the fifth official annual running of a handicap steeplechase, later to become known as the Grand National Steeplechase handicap horse race which took place at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool on Wednesday 1 March 1843 and attracted a field of 16 runners.

Although recorded by the press at the time as the eighth running of the Grand Liverpool, which was renamed the Grand National in 1847, the first three runnings were poorly organised affairs and are not currently officially recognised.

This year the race was run as a handicap, with horses weighted according to their ability. In previous years they had all carried the same amount. The National has remained a handicap ever since.^[1]

Finishing order

position	name	rider	age	weight	starting price	dstance or fate
Winner	Vanguard	Tom Olliver	8	8-10	12/1	Three lengths
Second	Nimrod	Bill Scott	8	11-00	10/1	Half a length
Third	Dragsman	John Crickmere	7	11-03	10/1
Fourth	Claude Duval	Joe Tomblin		11-07	12/1
Fifth	Goblin	Bartholomew Bretherton	12	11-06	10/1
Sixth	Bucephalus	Whitworth	11	11-05	Not quoted
Seventh	Lottery	Jem Mason	13	12-06	4/1	Last certain finisher
Eighth	Peter Simple	John Frisby	9	13-06	3/1 favourite	Completed the course but may not have taken all the fences
Ninth	The Returned	Major D Campbell	9	12-00	4/1	Completed the course but may not have taken all the fences
Non finishers
	The Romp	H B Hollingshead	8	11-00	Not quoted	Refused
	Croxby	William McDonough		11-06	Not quoted	Pulled up
The Wall {end of the first circuit}	Tinderbox	G Moore	6	11-07	10/1	Fell
The Wall {end of the first circuit}	Teetotum	W Lockwood	6	11-07	Not quoted	Fell or brought down by Tinderbox
Fence five	Victoria	T Taylor	6	11-10	Not quoted	Fell
First fence	Consul	F Oldaker	11	11-02	Not quoted	Refused
	Redwing	Thomas Doolan	8	11-10	Not quoted	Fell

Vanguard was owned by George Stanhope, the 6th Earl of Chesterfield and ran in his blue colours with red sleeves and was trained by his grooms at the Earl's private stables and gallops at Bretby Hall in Derbyshire.^[2]

The horses all returned safely but Mr Moore suffered a broken collar bone when he fell at the Wall. ^[3]

John Crickmere was considered to be very unlucky not have won as his mount, Dragsman had bolted down a lane and lost a huge amount of ground before he was able to get the horse back into the race to finish just three and a half lengths behind the winner. In the winners enclosure Crickmere was telling anyone who would listen how unlucky he was when Tom Olliver responded in jest "But John did we not stop for a smoke at the turn to give you a chance to catch up"

References

↑ The Grand National 1839-1955 - BBC News
↑ Stories
↑ Reg Green's A Race Apart (1987)

www.hometown.aol.co.uk/captainbeecher/1843VANGUARD.html

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Course	Aintree Racecourse Becher's Brook Canal Turn The Chair

Famous horses	Aldaniti Battleship Corbiere Crisp Devon Loch The Duke E.S.B. Foinavon Golden Miller L'Escargot Lord Gyllene Lottery Peter Simple Red Rum West Tip

Famous jockeys	Jack Anthony Martin Becher Tommy Carberry Bob Champion Richard Dunwoody Brian Fletcher Dick Francis Josh Gifford Bruce Hobbs Count Karl Kinsky Jem Mason Tony McCoy Tom Olliver Ernest Piggott Richard Pitman Ruby Walsh Fred Winter

Other people	Peter Bromley Ginger McCain Vincent O'Brien Michael O'Hehir Peter O'Sullevan Jenny Pitman Fred Rimell Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Lord Oaksey Lord Sefton

Lists	List of Grand National winners List of Grand National first four placings List of equine fatalities in the Grand National

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