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 Birch810-78 lengths02KirklandFrank Mason810-10Neck03The GunnerMr Joe Widger710-404Shawn AbooA Waddington610-105Robin Hood IVA Magee610-306Band of HopePatrick Cowley89-1307NapillahMr Arthur Wood89-908BenvenirPercy Woodland89-1009ManifestoH Pigott1612-1Last to complete
Non-finishers FenceNameJockeyAgeHandicap (st-lb)SPFate03Ambush IIAlgy Anthony1012-6Fell29The Pride of MabestownMr Arthur Gordon811-0Fell04InquisitorErnest Acres910-11 Fell05PatlanderE Matthews810-10Fell21DeerslayerJames Phillips810-10Fell24DetailArthur Nightingall??Knocked Over04CushendonDennis Morris910-7Fell?Knight of St PatrickM Walsh710-6?14May KingBill Dollery810-5Pulled Up05ComfitMr Frank Hartigan610-4Fell06BiologyDavid Read710-1Fell05Loch LomondFred Freemantle69-10Fell01RailoffR Sullivan79-9Fell14Old TownMr Harry Ripley139-7Pulled Up14Honeymoon IIW Lynn99-7Fell05KioraT McGuire910-3Fell05Hill of BreeGeorge Goswell810-4?
The Grand National 1839-1930 by David Hoadley Munroe
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.
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