1904 Grand National

English steeplechase horse race October 2023 June 2013 1904 Grand National Grand National File:Heroes and heroines of the Grand National BHL22091129.jpg Moifaa & Col. Brocklehurst (from Heroes and heroines of the Grand National) Aintree 25 March 1904 New Zealand Moifaa 25/1 Arthur Birch W Hickey Spencer Gollan Good to soft 1903 1905 The 1904 Grand National was the 66th renewal of the Grand National horse race that took place at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool, England, on 25 March 1904. The winner, Moifaa, was the first ever non-British/Irish winner of the race. He ran in the race again the following year, when he was owned by the King. Finishing Order PositionNameJockeyAgeHandicap (st-lb)SPDistance01MoifaaArthur Birch810-725 18 lengths02KirklandFrank Mason810-10100 7Neck03The GunnerMr Joe Widger710-425 104Shawn AbooA Waddington610-1100 105Robin Hood IVA Magee610-333 106Band of HopePatrick Cowley89-1340 107NapillahMr Arthur Wood89-9100 108BenvenirPercy Woodland89-1020 109ManifestoH Pigott1612-120 1Last to complete October 2021 Non-finishers FenceNameJockeyAgeHandicap (st-lb)SPFate03Ambush IIAlgy Anthony1012-67 2Fell29The Pride of MabestownMr Arthur Gordon811-066 1Fell04InquisitorErnest Acres910-11 https://www.grandnationalultimatehistory.com/races-1904.html 19049 1Fell05PatlanderE Matthews810-107 1Fell21DeerslayerJames Phillips810-1025 1Fell24DetailArthur Nightingall??100 14Knocked Over04CushendonDennis Morris910-7100 1Fell?Knight of St PatrickM Walsh710-6100 1?14May KingBill Dollery810-525 1Pulled Up05ComfitMr Frank Hartigan610-433 1Fell06BiologyDavid Read710-133 1Fell05Loch LomondFred Freemantle69-1066 1Fell01RailoffR Sullivan79-9100 1Fell14Old TownMr Harry Ripley139-7100 1Pulled Up14Honeymoon IIW Lynn99-750 1Fell05KioraT McGuire910-340 1Fell05Hill of BreeGeorge Goswell810-433 1? http://www.greyhoundderby.com/GN1904.htm Aintree 1904 Grand National The Grand National 1839-1930 by David Hoadley Munroe https://archive.org/details/heroesheroinesof00maso Heroes and heroines of the Grand National 1907 https://www.grandnationalultimatehistory.com/races-1904.html 1904 October 2021 Media coverage and aftermath Shortly after his victory, a story emerged from the United States that the Grand National winner had come to England, the survivor of a ship wreck. The popularity of the story of the Robinson Crusoe Grand National winner gained weight through the decades and has been retold many times in books and on television regarding the race, with some versions telling of super equine feats of fifty mile swims to safety. While Moifaa is known to have sailed from Australia to England without incident, the story is not totally without a grain of truth as another New Zealand bred competitor in the 1904 National, Kiora had indeed been shipwrecked on its way to England. The horse had swum nearly half a mile through stormy seas to a reef before being rescued in a very exhausted state the following day.http://www.grand-national.net/moifaa.htm Moifaa – Grand National Tales 21 July 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20131029211734/http://www.grand-national.net/moifaa.htm 29 October 2013 dead References 1904 1904 Grand National Grand National Category:March 1904 sports events in the United Kingdom