1845 Grand National

The 1845 Grand Liverpool Steeplechase was the seventh annual running of a Handicap Steeple-chase, later to become known as the Grand National Steeplechase Horse race which took place at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool on Wednesday March 5th 1845 and attracted a field of fifteen runners.

Betting

4/1 Vanguard

5/1 Tom Tug

6/1 Brenda

7/1 The Page

9/1 Nimrod, Peter Simple, Peter Swift & The Stranger

10/1 Brilliant

12/1 Clansman

15/1 Boxkeeper, Ceremony, Cure-All, The Exquisite & The Romp

Results

Winner: Cure-All, ridden by William Loft

Second: Peter Simple, ridden by John Frisby

Third: The Exquisite, ridden by Larry Byrne

Fourth: Tom Tug, ridden by John Crickmere

Details

None of the other runners had reached the distance judge, situated on a podium beside the chair fence by the time the fourth placed horse passed the finishing post. The seven runners who were continuing were declared as non finishers and are recorded as distanced. They were, in order, Boxkeeper, Ceremony, Peter Swift, the Stranger, Nimrod, Brilliant and The Romp. Of the four runners who failed to complete the course The Page had refused and Brenda ran out on the first circuit while Vanguard was pulled up at Becher's Brook second time and Clansman fell fatally at the Canal Turn.

The winning owner and rider was William loft from Healing near Grimsby, although he leased the ownership of the horse to Mr Stirling Crawford for the Grand National. Loft also officially trained the horse as well but this duty was more likely handled by Christopher Crisp, known as Kitty. Crisp actually walked every step of the road from Grimsby to Liverpool with the horse and after their victory they returned home the same way.

The race was run in a new record time of ten minutes, forty-seven seconds while Tom Olliver rode in the race for a record seventh time on Vanguard.

ources

*www.hometown.aol.co.uk/captainbeecher/1845CURE-ALL.html {Steve Porter - [e-mail]}

*Irish Newsletter 1845

*The Times 1845

*Liverpool Mercury 1845

*The Field 1954