1938 Grand National

English steeplechase horse race February 2023 June 2013 1938 Grand National Grand National Aintree Racecourse 25 March 1938 USA Battleship 40/1 England Bruce Hobbs Reg Hobbs USA Mrs. Marion duPont Scott Good to firm 1937 1939 right 275px Highlights of the 1938 Grand National (British Pathé) The 1938 Grand National was the 97th renewal of the Grand National horse race that took place at Aintree near Liverpool, England, on 25 March 1938. The steeplechase was won narrowly by American thoroughbred Battleship, a 40/1 shot ridden by 17-year-old jockey Bruce Hobbs and trained by Reg Hobbs, for owner Marion duPont Scott. Royal Danieli finished in second place, with Workman third and last year's second-placed Cooleen was fourth. Workman won the National the following year and Cooleen also finished fourth in 1939. Battleship is the only horse to have won both the Grand National at Aintree and the American Grand National. Thirty-six horses ran in the race, including the previous year's winner Royal Mail, who was pulled-up before the second Canal Turn with a broken blood vessel. Media coverage and aftermath Winning rider Bruce Hobbs later explained that he had Fred Rimell to thank in part for his victory. Hobbs stated that Battleship had landed very steeply at Becher's Brook and cut his chin on the ground, causing the pair to come to the seventh fence wrong. Battleship had to veer sharply to take the jump and as Hobbs stated. "He caught me off balance and I was starting to fall off when suddenly I got a push up the bum back into the saddle" [From Rimell]. Of the finish Hobbs stated "I didn't hit the little horse because he wouldn't go for the stick, but he gave everything and got up and won. I thought it was half a length but they gave it as a head and all the Irish said if there was a photograph I would have been second." Hobbs himself never raced in the National again after a fall later that year resulted in a back injury that ended his riding career. Sporting Life Souvenir Magazine, 9 April 1988, page 14 Finishing order PositionNameJockeyAgeHandicap (st-lb)SPDistance01BattleshipBruce Hobbs1111-0640 1A Headhttps://www.grandnationalultimatehistory.com/races-1938.html 193802Royal DanieliDL Moore18 103WorkmanJimmy Brogan28 104CooleenJack Fawcus8 105DelachanceJohn Moloney100 906Red Knight II Davy Jones28 107Blue ShirtBob Smythe8 108Hopeful HeroMr W Dawes100 109Under BidMarius Pringle40 110Bachelor PrinceDanny Morgan25 111Lough CottageRichard 'Dicky' Black40 112ProvocativeFred Rimell22 113DrimMr BK Tighe100 1 October 2021 Non-finishers Position/FateNameJockeyAgeHandicap (st-lb)SPFell (1st)InversibleMatt Hogan33 1FrobisherPerry Harding66 1Prominent LadHywell Jones100 1Dominick's CrossBob Everett22 1Fell (3rd)PontetJE Parkinson66 1DidoricDon Butchers50 1EmancipatorMr CRD Gray100 1Fell (6th)Brighter CottageW O'Grady40 1DawmarRoger Burford100 1Takvor PachaA Kalley100 7What Have YouSean Magee100 1Hurdy Gurdy ManJohn Hislop100 1Cabin FireTim Hyde33 1Fell (10th)Airgead SiosThomas McNeill25 1Stalbridge ParkGerry Wilson100 6K.D.H.George Archibald100 1Fell (16th)Rock LadJack Bissill66 1TapinoisA Scratchley100 1Blue PrinceBilly Parvin50 1Fell (22nd)Dunhill CastleFrenchie Nicholson20 1Fell (22nd)RockquillaThomas F Carey28 1Pulled Up (24th)Royal MailEvan Williams100 8Lazy BootsSir C Congreve100 1 October 2021 http://www.sportsbookguardian.com/horse-racing/grand-national/winners Grand National Winners – Sportsbook Guardian 2013-04-20 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20131227085539/https://www.sportsbookguardian.com/horse-racing/grand-national/winners 27 December 2013 http://www.greyhoundderby.com/GN1938.html Aintree Grand National 1938 https://sites.google.com/site/jockeypedia/ Jockeypedia http://www.grand-national.net/past_winners.htm Past Winners of the Grand National 15 April 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20111104085359/http://www.grand-national.net/past_winners.htm 4 November 2011 dead http://www.britishpathe.com/video/the-grand-national-1938/ Highlights of the 1938 Grand National https://www.grandnationalultimatehistory.com/races-1938.html 1938 References 1938 1938 Grand National Grand National Grand National