100 1 Grand National Winner
In any given year most of us know which horse has won the Grand National. But can you remember who won the Grand National in 2011? Or which year the 100/1 shot Mon Mome took the honours?
- 'Liam had a fine career in British racing, riding over 300 winners in the 17 years that he held a jockeys' licence, obviously none more memorable than his remarkable 100/1 Grand National success.
- Horse Racing Mon Mome, the 100-1 winner of the 2009 Grand National, has been retired. Trainer Venetia Williams said the 13-year-old would spend his retirement at her stables in Herefordshire.
- The 100-1 outsider won the 2009 Grand National by 12 lengths, with jockey Liam Treadwell on board. Late Treadwell celebrates after riding 100-1 shot Mon Mome to victory in the 2009 Grand National. Mon Mone was the biggest price winner of the race since Foinavon in 1967. But tragedy was to strike earlier this year when Treadwell died at the age.
Probably not. That’s also why so many of us look for a list of which horses, jockeys, and trainers won the great race and the year that they reigned victorious.
Because of that, we’ve decided to put together a comprehensive collection of all the Grand National winners, dating back to 1960. We’ve even included their odds!
Mon Mome’s win in 2009 defied the odds – almost literally – as the 100/1 shot was the biggest priced winner of the race for more than four decades, while he also stopped Comply or Die from making it back-to-back National wins.
List Of Grand National Winners
| YEAR: | HORSE | JOCKEY | TRAINER | ODDS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | CANCELLED | CANCELLED | CANCELLED | CANCELLED |
| 2019 | Tiger Roll | Davy Russell | Gordon Elliott | 4/1 |
| 2018 | Tiger Roll | Davy Russell | Gordon Elliott | 10/1 |
| 2017 | One for Arthur | Derek Fox | Lucinda Russell | 14/1 |
| 2016 | Rule The World | David Mullins | Mouse Morris | 33/1 |
| 2015 | Many Clouds | Leighton Aspell | Oliver Sherwood | 25/1 |
| 2014 | Pineau De Re | Leighton Aspell | Dr R. Newland | 25/1 |
| 2013 | Auroras Encore | Ryan Mania | Sue Smith | 66/1 |
| 2012 | Neptune Collonges | Daryl Jacob | Paul Nicholls | 33/1 |
| 2011 | Ballabriggs | Jason Maguire | Donald McCain Jnr | 14/1 |
| 2010 | Don’t Push It | A.P. McCoy | Jonjo O’Neill | 25/1 |
| 2009 | Mon Mome | Liam Treadwell | Venetia Williams | 100/1 |
| 2008 | Comply or Die | Timmy Murphy | David Pipe | 7/1 |
| 2007 | Silver Birch | Robbie Power | Gordon Elliott | 33/1 |
| 2006 | Numbersixvalverde | Niall Madden | Martin Brassil | 11/1 |
| 2005 | Hedgehunter | Ruby Walsh | Willie Mullins | 7/1 f |
| 2004 | Amberleigh House | Graham Lee | Donald McCain | 16/1 |
| 2003 | Monty’s Pass | Barry Geraghty | Jimmy Mangan | 16/1 |
| 2002 | Bindaree | Jim Culloty | NigelTwiston-Davies | 20/1 |
| 2001 | Red Marauder | Richard Guest | Norman Mason | 33/1 |
| 2000 | Papillon | Ruby Walsh | Ted Walsh | 10/1 |
| 1999 | Bobbyjo | Paul Carberry | Tommy Carberry | 10/1 |
| 1998 | Earth Summit | Carl Llewellyn | Nigel Twiston-Davies | 7/1 f |
| 1997 | Lord Gyllene | Tony Dobbin | S.Brookshaw | 14/1 |
| 1996 | Rough Quest | Mick Fitzgerald | Terry Casey | 7/1 f |
| 1995 | Royal Athlete | Jason Titley | Jenny Pitman | 14/1 |
| 1994 | Miinnehoma | Richard Dunwoody | Martin Pipe | 16/1 |
| 1993 | VOID RACE | VOID RACE | VOID RACE | VOID |
| 1992 | Party Politics | Carl Llewellyn | Nick Gaselee | 14/1 |
| 1991 | Seagram | Nigel Hawke | David Barons | 12/1 |
| 1990 | Mr Frisk | Mark Armytage | Kim Bailey | 16/1 |
| 1989 | Little Polveir | Jimmy Frost | Toby Balding | 28/1 |
| 1988 | Rhyme n Reason | Brendan Powell | David Elsworth | 10/1 |
| 1987 | Maori Venture | Steve Knight | Andrew Turnell | 28/1 |
| 1986 | West Tip | Richard Dunwoody | Michael Oliver | 15/2 |
| 1985 | Last Suspect | Hywel Davies | Tim Forster | 50/1 |
| 1984 | Hallo Dandy | Neale Doughty | Gordon Richards | 13/1 |
| 1983 | Corbiere | Ben de Haan | Jenny Pitman | 13/1 |
| 1982 | Grittar | Dick Saunders | Frank Gilman | 7/1 f |
| 1981 | Aldaniti | Bob Champion | Josh Gifford | 10/1 |
| 1980 | Ben Nevis | C.Fenwick | Tim Forster | 40/1 |
| 1979 | Rubstic | Maurice Barnes | J. Leadbetter | 25/1 |
| 1978 | Lucius | Bob Davies | G. Richards | 14/1 |
| 1977 | Red Rum | Tommy Stack | Donald McCain | 9/1 |
| 1976 | Rag Trade | John Burke | Fred Rimmell | 14/1 |
| 1975 | L’Escargot | Tommy Carberry | Dan Moore | 13/2 |
| 1974 | Red Rum | Brian Fletcher | Donald McCain | 11/1 |
| 1973 | Red Rum | Brian Fletcher | Donald McCain | 9/1 f |
| 1972 | Well To Do | G. Thorner | Tim Forster | 14/1 |
| 1971 | Specify | John Cook | John Sutcliffe | 28/1 |
| 1970 | Gay Trip | Pat Taaffe | Fred Rimmell | 15/1 |
| 1969 | Highland Wedding | Eddie Harty | Toby Balding | 100/9 |
| 1968 | Red Alligator | Brian Fletcher | Denys Smith | 100/7 |
| 1967 | Foinavon | John Buckingham | John Kempton | 100/1 |
| 1966 | Anglo | Tim Norman | Fred Winter | 50/1 |
| 1965 | Jay Trump | Tommy Smith | Fred Winter | 100/6 |
| 1964 | Team Spirit | G. Robinson | Fulke Walwyn | 18/1 |
| 1963 | Ayala | Pat Buckley | Keith Piggott | 66/1 |
| 1962 | Kilmore | Fred Winter | Ryan Price | 28/1 |
| 1961 | Nicolaus Silver | Bobby Beasley | Fred Rimmel | 28/1 |
| 1960 | Merryman II | Gerry Scott | Neville Crump | 13/2 |
Afv 100 Grand Winner
So there you have it, all the Grand National winners since 1960. Ther are the household names of Red Rum, Aldaniti, and Tiger Roll as well as a few you may have completely forgotten about.
Some famous jockeys are still gracing our tv screens even today including Mick Fitzgerald, Ruby Walsh, and Mark Armytage. And who can forget some of the most successful Grand National winning trainers including Fred Rimmell and Donald McCain.
100 1 Grand National Winners
Hopefully, next year’s Grand National will produce another famous winner who lives on in the history books. Who that will be, and which horse will get added to the list is still a mystery.
On a grey October morning, along a Berkshire lane leading up to the Ridgeway amid fields stuffed with pheasant, 30 of us joined a mini-pilgrimage. The former champion jockeys Graham Thorner and Stan Mellor had made it along with Marcus Armytage, who won the Grand National on Mr Frisk. There, too, were a cluster of racing historians including Chris Pitt and John Pinfold. More importantly, the former trainer John Kempton and the former jockey John Buckingham were present with the author David Owen for the unveiling of a plaque to a horse whose name will never be forgotten in jump racing: Foinavon was the 100–1 winner of the 1967 Grand National after he and jockey Buckingham alone avoided the 23rd fence pile-up that devastated the field. Until then commentators only ever referred to the 23rd as ‘the fence after Becher’s’. Since then it has been ‘the Foinavon fence’.
It was in the Grey Ladies livery yard near Compton, in those days known as Chatham Stables, that Foinavon shared a box with a goat called Susie (who accompanied him to Aintree) and where his body lies buried. For all of us the ceremony triggered memories of that 1967 National. John Kempton, Foinavon’s young trainer who later quit racing to run diving boats, did not go with Foinavon to Aintree that day. He preferred to ride the stable’s best hope, the hurdler Three Dons, in a race at Worcester. At least he won. Head lad Colin Hemsley also chose Worcester. So did box driver Geoff Stocker. In 1967, he told us, he had tossed with colleague Tony Hutt over who should drive to Aintree. Stocker won — and chose Worcester. Stable lad Clifford Booth led up the National winner and suffered a real hard-luck story. After letting go horse and jockey for the start, he joined the Tote queue to back Foinavon — and was still queuing when the tapes went up.
‘I’m here to represent the jockeys who got out of the way,’ said Stan Mellor. His mount, The Fossa, put on the brakes amid the mêlée and ejected him on to the top of the fence. He recalls now, ‘I was the only one who didn’t find his horse afterwards.’ He thought he saw The Fossa’s distinctive blue saddlecloth and ran to the Canal Turn to catch him and remount, only to discover it was the wrong animal. His recollection prompted Graham Thorner’s memory of a day of many fallers in a Wincanton novice chase. Swiftly up again on his feet, he grabbed the horse waiting nearby and rode him into third place — only to discover that it was not the mount he had started with but another jockey’s horse.
Stan’s theory was that the carnage at the 23rd happened because it was the fence after Becher’s where the landing ground drops away. ‘It’s like going downstairs and finding a step isn’t there.’ The loose horses, he reckons, had been scared by that and tried to run out before the next. But there was no exit chute and they came back at a trot sideways across the approaching field to create pandemonium for the 28 remaining riders.
The full story of Foinavon’s Grand National and of the people who owned, trained and worked around him has now been skilfully woven together by David Owen, the master of ceremonies at the unveiling, in Foinavon: The story of the Grand National’s Biggest Upset (Wisden, £18.99). The day we met up, Foinavon’s cool jockey on the big day, John Buckingham, now retired from the weighing-room after several decades as a jockey’s valet, insisted that even without the mêlée Foinavon would have been in with a chance: ‘We were always going well.’ Perhaps Foinavon did win because he was the slowest horse in the race, but going for the gaps then hanging on in isolation over the last six fences required skill from the jockey and courage from the horse.
David Owen’s researches reveal, too, why Foinavon was more likely than some other horses to cope in such a situation. He was a laid-back, relaxed kind of horse never fazed by anything. In his early days as a stablemate of Arkle in Tom Dreaper’s yard (and owned like him by Anne Duchess of Westminster), Foinavon fell one day at Ballydoyle with Pat Taaffe. As the jockey was getting himself back together, he saw Foinavon still lying down and taking the opportunity to have a nice munch of grass: ‘He was that kind of horse. If he had been a man, he would have spent his days hands in pockets whistling through his teeth and scuffling the dust.’
David’s Owen’s book, a model of its kind, is far more than the story of one horse and one race. Studded with anecdotage, it is an insightful mini social history with entertaining diversions into the history of Aintree and its longtime owner Mirabel Topham, and into the weight-loss methods and the injuries suffered by National Hunt jockeys. Alas, my only contribution at Aintree on that famous day was backing Popham Down, the horse who caused all the trouble.