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1862 Grand National
The 1862 Grand National was the 24th renewal of the Grand National horse race that took place at Aintree near Liverpool, England, on 12 March 1862.
The race was marred by the only recorded human fatality in the history of the race when Joseph Wynne suffered chest injuries from which he died hours after the race.
This year the natural fences, which numbered around eight, while being described as small, all had more posts and rails added to them to make the fence more of a challenge. First circuit: Starting from the field used every year since 1851, Fence 1 {15} Bank, Fence 2 {16} Hedge, Ditch and Cop, Fence 3 {17} Post and Rails, Fence 4 {18} Rails and Ditch, Fence 5 {19} Becher's Brook, Fence 6 {20} Post and Rails, Fence 7 {21} Post and Rails Fence 8 {22} Hedge and Ditch, often referred to as the Canal Turn in previous years, Fence 9 {23} Valentine's Brook, Fence 10 {24} Ditch and Quickset, Fence 11 {25} Post and Rails, Fence 12 {26} Stump Hedge and Ditch.
The runners then crossed the lane at the canal bridge to re-enter the racecourse proper, turning at the first opportunity towards the fences in front of the stands. Fence 13 Gorse Hurdle, Fence 14 Artificial Brook.
Second circuit: The runners then turned away from the Grandstands again and crossed what had been known in the 1850s as Proceed's Lane, following the same circuit until reaching the racecourse again. This time the runners continued to the wider extreme of the course before turning to run up the straight in front of the stands where Fence 27 Hurdle had to be jumped.
The runners then bypassed the Gorsed Hurdle and Artificial brook inside before reaching the winning post in front of the Main Stand.
The race had been considered in decline for the better part of the previous decade by the press due to increasingly lower weighted races and an overflow of flat race rejects taking part, and indeed winning. For the writers of the major sporting papers they saw 1862 as vindication of their belief that changing the race to a handicap in the 1840s had been wrong and that the race now had become nothing more than a betting event for owners to turn a quick win. Previously slightly devious tactics of entering a strongly fancied horse to secure good odds on a second string and then withdraw the former had often been suggested but the flagrancy with which it was done this year made the tactic obvious Most of the leading fancies, including last years winner Jealousy were scratched in the final forty-eight hours before the race, leaving the smallest field of the handicap era to date and an incredibly bitter racing public.
The Huntsman at 3/1 favourite was already considered far and away the best example of a hunter chaser in the country and had already been second and third in his two previous attempts. Since then the horse had been relocated to France to be trained by Englishman Harry Lamplugh and was bidding to be the first horse trained outside the United Kingdom to win the race. With the withdrawal of most of his major rivals, not least Jealousy victory was seen by many as a foregone conclusion. Harry Lamplugh, second in the race three years earlier, trained the horse and took him as his eighth attempt to win. Fears of more skulduggery briefly crossed Aintree when his race number wasn't initially added to the race board, but these were quickly dismissed.
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1862 Grand National
The 1862 Grand National was the 24th renewal of the Grand National horse race that took place at Aintree near Liverpool, England, on 12 March 1862.
The race was marred by the only recorded human fatality in the history of the race when Joseph Wynne suffered chest injuries from which he died hours after the race.
This year the natural fences, which numbered around eight, while being described as small, all had more posts and rails added to them to make the fence more of a challenge. First circuit: Starting from the field used every year since 1851, Fence 1 {15} Bank, Fence 2 {16} Hedge, Ditch and Cop, Fence 3 {17} Post and Rails, Fence 4 {18} Rails and Ditch, Fence 5 {19} Becher's Brook, Fence 6 {20} Post and Rails, Fence 7 {21} Post and Rails Fence 8 {22} Hedge and Ditch, often referred to as the Canal Turn in previous years, Fence 9 {23} Valentine's Brook, Fence 10 {24} Ditch and Quickset, Fence 11 {25} Post and Rails, Fence 12 {26} Stump Hedge and Ditch.
The runners then crossed the lane at the canal bridge to re-enter the racecourse proper, turning at the first opportunity towards the fences in front of the stands. Fence 13 Gorse Hurdle, Fence 14 Artificial Brook.
Second circuit: The runners then turned away from the Grandstands again and crossed what had been known in the 1850s as Proceed's Lane, following the same circuit until reaching the racecourse again. This time the runners continued to the wider extreme of the course before turning to run up the straight in front of the stands where Fence 27 Hurdle had to be jumped.
The runners then bypassed the Gorsed Hurdle and Artificial brook inside before reaching the winning post in front of the Main Stand.
The race had been considered in decline for the better part of the previous decade by the press due to increasingly lower weighted races and an overflow of flat race rejects taking part, and indeed winning. For the writers of the major sporting papers they saw 1862 as vindication of their belief that changing the race to a handicap in the 1840s had been wrong and that the race now had become nothing more than a betting event for owners to turn a quick win. Previously slightly devious tactics of entering a strongly fancied horse to secure good odds on a second string and then withdraw the former had often been suggested but the flagrancy with which it was done this year made the tactic obvious Most of the leading fancies, including last years winner Jealousy were scratched in the final forty-eight hours before the race, leaving the smallest field of the handicap era to date and an incredibly bitter racing public.
The Huntsman at 3/1 favourite was already considered far and away the best example of a hunter chaser in the country and had already been second and third in his two previous attempts. Since then the horse had been relocated to France to be trained by Englishman Harry Lamplugh and was bidding to be the first horse trained outside the United Kingdom to win the race. With the withdrawal of most of his major rivals, not least Jealousy victory was seen by many as a foregone conclusion. Harry Lamplugh, second in the race three years earlier, trained the horse and took him as his eighth attempt to win. Fears of more skulduggery briefly crossed Aintree when his race number wasn't initially added to the race board, but these were quickly dismissed.