1922 Grand National

English steeplechase horse race October 2020 June 2013 1922 Grand National Grand National Aintree Racecourse 24 March 1922 Music Hall 100/9 Wales Lewis Rees Wales Owen Anthony Hugh Kershaw Good 1921 1923 right 275px Silent highlights of the 1922 Grand National (British Pathé) The 1922 Grand National was the 81st renewal of the Grand National horse race that took place at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool, England, on 24 March 1922. After two false starts, the race was won by Music Hall at odds of 100/9. The nine-year-old was ridden by Lewis Rees and trained by Owen Anthony, for owner Hugh Kershaw, who collected the winner's prize of £5,000. The winning jockey's brother, Dick Rees, had won the race the previous year on Shaun Spadah.Robin Goodfellow Grand National Daily Mail 25 March 1922 Drifter finished in second place and Taffytus in third. Sergeant Murphy and A Double Escape were remounted after falling and finished fourth and fifth respectively.The Grand National 25 March 1922 5 42989 There were only five finishers from the field of thirty-two horses. Most did not complete the first circuit, with many having been obstructed by Sergeant Murphy in an incident at the Canal Turn. After a second consecutive year with a small number of finishers, following the 1921 race when only four horses completed the course, The Manchester Guardian wrote that "it is often not a case of the survival of the fittest but of the survival of the luckiest", The Grand National The Guardian 25 March 1922 while Robin Goodfellow in the Daily Mail described it as "a fit subject for the Chamber of Horrors". The favourite, Southampton, and Shaun Spadah both fell at the first fence, and there were two equine fatalities: The Inca II at Becher's Brook and Awbeg at the Canal Turn. Finishing Order PositionNameJockeyAgeHandicap (st-lb)SPDistance1Music HallLewis Rees911-8100 912 lengths2DrifterWilliam Watkinson810-018 16 lengths3TaffytusTed Leader911-066 1A Distance4Sergeant MurphyCharles Hawkins1211-0100 65A Double EscapeTuppy Bennet810-340 1 Non-finishers FenceNameJockeyAgeHandicap (st-lb)SPFate01Shaun SpadahDick Rees1112-3100 801SouthamptonHarry Brown611-10100 12 F04VaulxTony Escott810-025 1Fell05Clashing ArmsJack Anthony711-39 1Fell06Grey Dawn VAlf Newey910-025 106The Inca IIFred Brookes810-0100 1Fell06WavertreeBryan Bletsoe1111-1025 1Fell08All WhiteBob Chadwick811-0100 7Brought Down08AwbegMr A Knowles1110-0100 1Fell08General SaxhamMr P Dennis910-966 108NortonIsaac Morgan711-840 1Fell?ClonreeJ Mahoney811-633 1?St BernardMr R Pulford811-566 1?The Turk IIIvor Anthony1210-1133 1?Super ManRoger Burford710-9100 1?Gay LochinvarF Croney610-8100 1?DunadryJames Hogan jnr910-766 1?Any TimeGilbert Wall1110-5100 1?Square UpJ Rennison910-420 1?Mask-OnJ Burns910-250 1?Arabian KnightR Spares610-2100 1?Sudan IIG Calder1310-0100 1?MasterfulMr M Blair910-066 1?DunstanburghH Watkins1010-0100 1?ConfessorRobert Trudgill810-0100 1?Such A SportCaptain A C Delmege1110-0100 122ArravalePercy Whitaker710-10100 7 http://www.greyhoundderby.com/GN1922.html Grand National 1922 The Grand National 1839-1930 by David Hoadley Munroe http://www.sportsbookguardian.com/horse-racing/grand-national/winners Grand National Winners - Sportsbook Guardian 2015-05-27 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20131227085539/https://www.sportsbookguardian.com/horse-racing/grand-national/winners 27 December 2013 https://www.grandnationalultimatehistory.com/races-1922.html 1922 References 1922 1922 Grand National Grand National Grand National