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The years the Grand National never happened

The Grand National has ended in chaos after a series of events at the start which reduced the world-famous horse race to a shambles. An estimated 300 million people around the world were watching the race, held at the Aintree racecourse in Liverpool, live on television, when 30 of the 39 riders failed to realise a false start had been called and set off around the racetrack. The National is the highlight of Aintree's Grand National meeting which this year runs from Thursday April 8 to Saturday April 10. The main event will be on Saturday as things stand. The start time for the Randox Grand National Steeple Chase is still to be announced for Saturday 10 April 2021. As the main race of the Festival, over 150,000 racing fans will be in attendance to see the biggest horse racing event of the year.

The Randox Health Grand National is the only race where the official handicapper specially frames the weights, often taking into account past Aintree form. The weights are announced at a launch in February and do not change afterwards as there are no penalties for success after that time. The 2021 Grand National will be held at Aintree Racecourse on Saturday, April 10th at 5.15pm. Sponsored by Randox Health, it is a UK handicap steeplechase over 4.

In over 170 years of Grand National history, the race has been declared void by the Jockey Club only once.

In 1993, an estimated 300 million people were watching the race either at Aintree itself or on live television. Over £75 million had been placed in bets.

There was confusion with anti-race protestors at the first fence on the track before the race which didn't help matters. But much worse was to come. After an initial false start, there was a second, but the recall flag was not waved.

Sadly, just nine of the 39 riders understood it was a false start, and the others set off without realising.

Eleven riders completed the first circuit before pulling up as they became aware of the mistake. But seven riders completed the race, ignoring the shouts of the crowd and the officials waving flags to get them to stop.

Apparently some of the jockeys had mistaken the officials as another group of protestors causing further disruption. Trained by Jenny Pitman and ridden by John White, Esha Ness was the first horse to finish the National that never was.

Just a few years later in 1997, a suspected IRA bomb threat meant that the Grand National had to be postponed for two days. Two warnings with recognised IRA code-words were received before the jockeys had mounted. The bomb warning led to the largest ever evacuation of a sporting event as 60,000 people were evacuated from Aintree and 100 horses had to be left unattended for four hours.

Suny Bay's stable lad, Phil Sharp, initially left with the mass evacuation, but came back to water and care for the horses until they were retrieved later. Police carried out two controlled explosions at Aintree that day. The 1997 Grand National was re-run on 7 April, with jockey Tony Dobbin winning by an emphatic 25 lengths on Lord Gyllene.

Fortunately, these are the only two unscheduled blips in Grand National racing history. Otherwise the race has run year after year since 1839, even continuing through World War One, with three races taking place at Gatwick Racecourse, an old course that has since become part of Gatwick Airport - though during the second world war, the Grand National was officially suspended from 1941-45.

The draw of the Grand National is it's inherent unpredictability, one never knows exactly what will be instore for the next one.

Excitement is starting to build ahead of the 2020 edition of the Grand National. The iconic race sees 40 runners compete over 30 jumps around Aintree’s four-mile-two-furlong course.

Last year’s race saw Tiger Roll become the first back-to-back winner of the Grand National since Red Rum in the 1970s.

The horse’s owner Michael O’Leary said afterwards: “It’s unbelievable.

“It’s a phenomenal training performance by Gordon [Elliot]. It’s brilliant that he keeps bringing this horse back at Cheltenham better than ever and Aintree better than ever.

“And what a ride by Davy [Russell] – fantastic. It’s unbelievable, to win two Grand Nationals is just incredible.”

Tiger Roll will now carry top weight at the 2020 Grand National.

And more history beckons as no horse has ever has won the historic race three years in a row.

When is Grand National 2020?

This year’s Grand National will take place on Saturday, April 4.

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What time is the Grand National?

The 2020 race gets underway at 5.15pm BST.

How can I watch the Grand National?

The Aintree race will be shown live on ITV throughout the UK.

This means fans can also stream the action for free.

To do this, simply download the ITV Hub app or head to the ITV website to watch online.

Grand National 2020 latest news

British Horseracing Authority chase handicapper Martin Greenwood, who framed the weights for the second time this year and has total discretion for the Grand National, said: “I have made Tiger Roll and Delta Work joint top-weights for the Randox Health Grand National.

“This decision was made essentially on two factors – historical compression which was brought in by Phil Smith and has been used for the last 10 years or so. On the other hand, I have to give Tiger Roll this mark based on his efforts over the national fences at Aintree where he is of course unbeaten.

“Tiger Roll was rated 172 at the end of last year and obviously there is no recent evidence to go on because of his fitness issues, so his handicap mark has been unquantifiable since. He is therefore coming down 2lb and carries the same weight as Suny Bay did when he was second in the 1998 Grand National. No other horse has carried that rating since. Many Clouds won off 11st 9lb, but he did not have as high a rating.

“It must be remembered that Tiger Roll ran in the race off a rating of 159 but was actually rated 167 at the time due to his win in the Cross Country at Cheltenham.

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“Tiger Roll has also not yet qualified for this year’s Grand National. Whilst he may run in the Boyne Hurdle at Navan (Sunday, 14 February), he still has to run in a chase to qualify. There are about 15 horses overall who currently do not qualify because they have either not run over fences this season or not yet finished in the first four in a race over 23 and a half furlongs in their career. A high-profile example would be Cadmium, a Topham Chase winner.

“Delta Work is a potential Cheltenham Gold Cup contender and, in order to keep as many of the horses in the handicap, he is also off 170. Other horses towards the top include Bristol de Mai and Native River. Bristol de Mai was rated 173 when entered last year and that figure has been downgraded since to 168. I have dropped Native River 2lb to 166 as Bristol De Mai has finished in front of him the last couple of times they have met, and I thought he was workmanlike when winning at Newbury on Saturday.

“This year, 73% of the horses entered are in the handicap. Similarly, from a starting rating of 140, there are more horses than ever in the modern era entered for the race – 92 in total.