1922 Grand National: Results, Runners & Fallers

Much like the 1921 Grand National a year earlier, the 1922 Grand National saw just a small number of finishers, with the press picking up on this and declaring it a race that was more about being lucky than being the best.

The luckiest in 1922 was Music Hall, who would go on to win the race by 12 lengths, as one of just five who would finish the race.

Going on the day was described as good, which was expected to increase the number of finishers, but an incident on the first circuit in particular prevented that.

That was from 32 starters, with many of those departing the race during an incident at the Canal Turn on the first circuit. Sergeant Murphy, who would win the race in 1923, fell and caused the incident, taking out many runners behind him.

Of the five that did finish, two remounted, meaning just three runners completed the course without falling.

Before the race began, we saw two false starts, adding more strength behind talks to switch how the race was started, something that would be implemented a couple of years later.

We had a Welsh double with the connections, with both jockey and trainer coming from Wales and landing this race together.

Winning trainer was Owen Anthony, a man who was having just his second Grand National attempt, his first coming just a year earlier. This would be the only Grand National win of his career, from 16 attempts.

The jockey on board was Lewis Rees, brother of Dick Rees, who was the winning jockey a year earlier on Shaun Spadah. Rees had seven total attempts to win the Grand National; this was his only success from those chances, and it was actually the only time that he managed to complete the course, falling or being brought down on every other attempt.

Results

Non Finishers