The 1911 Grand National was the 73rd official annual renewal of the Grand National horse race that took place at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool, England, on 24 March 1911.
The only moving images of the race turned up in a London auction in 2007, found by Angus Loughran, and first shown to the public in a BBC documentary The Big Flutter: The Grand National on Film in 2011.
Torrential rain caused many riders to fall. Twenty-two out of the twenty-six runners failed to finish.
The race was won by the 20:1 shot Glenside, a broken winded one-eyed horse, ridden by Jack Anthony. He went into the lead after Caubeen and Rathnally collided after Becher's Brook, as the only horse that wasn't remounted, and went on to a twenty length victory. He was followed by Rathnally, Shady Girl and in fourth place Fool-Hardy, the only horses to finish the race.
Finishing Order PositionNameJockeyAgeHandicap (st-lb)SPDistance01GlensideJack Anthony9Dublin Daily Express, Saturday 25 March 1911, page 9, Column 210-320 lengths02RathnallyRobert Chadwick611-003Shady GirlG Clancy?10-504FoolhardyMr MacNeill?9-7Last to complete
Non-finishers FenceNameJockeyAgeHandicap (st-lb)SPFate?Lutteur IIIGeorges Parfrement?12-3Fell?Trianon IIIR Sauval611-8Fell?JenkinstownPercy Woodland?11-7Pulled Up?Mount Prospect's FortuneEdmund Driscoll?11-6Fell?Rory O'MoorePercy Whitaker?11-6Knocked Over?CaubeenAlf Newey?11-5Fell?Lord RiversWilliam Payne snr?10-9Fell?Fetlar's PrideJohn Walsh jnr?10-7Fell?CarseyPatrick Cowley?10-6Fell?VizBryan Bletsoe?10-5Fell?Monk VMr F Drake?10-1Fell?SchwarmerF Damly?10-0Fell?SuhescanA V Chapman?10-1Fell?Great CrossMr Walwyn69-13Fell?Circassian's PrideIsaac Morgan?9-12Knocked Over?Precentor IIA Aylin?9-11Fell?Bridge IVPeter Roberts?9-9Fell?CarderB Roberts?9-7Fell?FlaxenArthur Smith?9-7Fell?Roman CandleT Wilmot?9-7Fell?Hesperus MagnusWillian Fitzgerald?9-7Pulled Up?Hercules IIMr R W Hall?9-8Pulled Up
The Grand National 1839-1930 by David Hoadley Munroe
References
https://web.archive.org/web/20060116221716/http://www.grand-national-world.co.uk/gnw/the_race/past_winners_index.html https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/horse_racing/9450571.stm https://web.archive.org/web/20131227085539/https://www.sportsbookguardian.com/horse-racing/grand-national/winners