1848 Grand National

1848 Grand National
Grand National
Location	Aintree
Date	1 March 1848
Winning horse	Chandler
SP	12/1
Jockey	Capt. Josey Little
Trainer	Tom Eskrett
Owner	Josey Little
← 1847 1849 →

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 Captain William Peel's Chandler trained by Tom Eskrett. 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 Curate. 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	dstance or fate
Winner	Chandler	Lieut Josey Little	12	11-12	12/1	1/2 a length
Second	The Curate	Tom Olliver		11-02	4/1 favourite	1 & 1/2 lengths
Third	Standard Guard	William Taylor		10-12	100/6
Fourth	British Yeoman	Mr Charles Bevill		10-08	Not quoted
Fifth	Sir Arthur	Murphy		11-01	15/1
Non Finishers
	Wolverhampton	Bartholomew Bretherton		11-12	Not quoted
	Saucepan	Terry Abbott		11-11	Not quoted	Refused at the first fence on the second circuit, stopping many others.
	Mathew	Denny Wynne	10	11-10	8/1	Brought down on the first circuit
	Jerry	Sanders		11-07	Not quoted	Pulled up
	Father Matthew	John Lamplugh		11-06	Not quoted	Fell
	Mr O'Higgin's Pioneer	Captain William Peel	8	11-06	25/1	Brought down
	The Switcher	Lord Strathmore		11-05		Fell
	Ashberry Lass	Collis	6	11-03
	Cheroot	McGee		11-02
	Aristides	Rowlands		11-01	Not quoted
	Khondooz	H Rackley		11-00	25/1	Pulled up
	Sophia	William Ford		11-00	Not quoted
	The Irish Bard	Frisot		11-00	Not quoted
	Eagle	Johnny Broome		10-13	Not quoted	Fell at Becher's Brook 2nd time when tailed off
	Mr Harrison's Pioneer	J Neale		10-13	Not quoted	Brought down
	Picton	N Burke		10-13
	Counsellor	John Frisby		10-12	25/1	Fell fatally at the ditch and bank along the canal side on the second circuit
	Fortune Teller	Neptune Stagg		10-10	33/1	Fell
	The Sailor	William Holman	6	10-08		Fell fatally at the bank and ditch on the canal side on the second circuit
	The Gipsy Queen	Whitfield		10-06		Refused
	Variety	Horatio Powell		10-08
	Blue Pill	W Allensby		10-03		Fell fatally at the bank and ditch along the canal side on the second circuit
	Sparta	T Turner		10-00		Fell
	Naworth	William Archer		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 2009-05-03. Retrieved 2009-04-05.

Grand National

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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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