1848 Grand National
Grand National | |
Location | Aintree |
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Date | 1 March 1848 |
Winning horse | Chandler |
Starting price | 12/1 |
Jockey | ![]() |
Trainer | Tom Eskrett |
Owner | ![]() |
Conditions | Heavy |
The 1848 Grand National Steeplechase was the tenth official annual running of a handicap steeplechase horse race at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool on Wednesday, 1 March. It attracted a then record, field of 29 competitors for a prize valued at £1,015 to the winner.[1]
The race was won by Lieutenant Josey Little on Chandler trained by . Lieutenant Little wore Captain Peel's colours of white silks with a black cap. The horse won in a time of 11 minutes and 21 seconds, forty-two seconds slower than the course record set the previous year. With the proceeds of the race Lieutenant Little was able to purchase his promotion to the rank of captain in the 1st King's Dragoon Guards.[2] Tom Olliver rode in the race for a record tenth time, finishing second on . The race was marred by the fatal falls of three competitors at the same fence in the latter stages of the second circuit, taking the total number of fatalities in the history of the race to five.
Finishing order[]
No official returns for the Grand National exist prior to 1865. The return below is that published by the reporter of The Times newspaper the day after the race.
position | name | rider | age | weight | starting price | distance or fate |
Winner | Chandler | Lieut Josey Little | 12 | 11-12 | 12/1 | 1/2 a length |
Second | Tom Olliver | 11-02 | 4/1 favourite | 1 & 1/2 lengths | ||
Third | 10-12 | 100/6 | ||||
Fourth | Mr | 10-08 | Not quoted | |||
Fifth | J.G. Murphy | 11-01 | 15/1 | |||
Non Finishers | ||||||
Bartholomew Bretherton | 11-12 | Not quoted | ||||
11-11 | Not quoted | Refused at the first fence on the second circuit, stopping many others. | ||||
Mathew | 10 | 11-10 | 8/1 | Brought down on the first circuit | ||
Jerry | W. Sanders | 11-07 | Not quoted | Pulled up | ||
11-06 | Not quoted | Fell | ||||
Mr O'Higgin's | 8 | 11-06 | 25/1 | Brought down | ||
11-05 | Fell | |||||
J. Collis | 6 | 11-03 | ||||
W. McGee | 11-02 | |||||
J. Rowlands | 11-01 | Not quoted | ||||
H Rackley | 11-00 | 25/1 | Pulled up | |||
11-00 | Not quoted | |||||
D. Freeze | 11-00 | Not quoted | ||||
Johnny Broome | 10-13 | Not quoted | Fell at Becher's Brook 2nd time when tailed off | |||
J Neale | 10-13 | Not quoted | Brought down | |||
N Burke | 10-13 | |||||
10-12 | 25/1 | Fell fatally at the ditch and bank along the canal side on the second circuit | ||||
10-10 | 33/1 | Fell | ||||
6 | 10-08 | Fell fatally at the bank and ditch on the canal side on the second circuit | ||||
W. Whitfield | 10-06 | Refused | ||||
Horatio Powell | 10-08 | |||||
W Allensby | 10-03 | Fell fatally at the bank and ditch along the canal side on the second circuit | ||||
T Turner | 10-00 | Fell | ||||
Naworth | 9-08 |
References[]
- ^ Green, Reg (1989). A Race Apart: The History of the Grand National. Hodder & Stoughton. p. 32. ISBN 978-0-340-41578-8.
- ^ "1st Dragoon guards regimental history". Archived from the original on 4 May 2009. Retrieved 5 April 2009.
- ^ "1848".
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