2013 Grand National Oscar Time finished in fourth and Rare Bob was fifth. Seventeen runners completed the course. Sue Smith became only the third woman to train a Grand National winner, after Jenny Pitman (1983 and 1995) and Venetia Williams (2009). Smith said afterward: "I knew the ground was right for him and hoped everything else was. He stayed down the middle and had a bit of luck in running. He didn't have a lot of weight and that helped, too." Auroras Encore was jockey Ryan Mania's first ride in the National. He said after his victory: "There are no words to describe
1987 Grand National Pardubicka six months later. http://www.grand-national-world.co.uk/gnw/the_race/past_winners_index.html 1987 Grand National The 1987 Grand National (known as the Seagram Grand National for sponsorship reasons) was the 141st running of the Grand National horse race that took place at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool, England, on 4 April 1987. The race was won in a time of 9 minutes, 19.3 seconds, and by a distance of five lengths by the 28/1 each way chance, Maori Venture who provided jockey Steve Knight with his second Grand National ride. The winner was trained in East Hendred, Oxfordshire by Andy Turnell and ran in the black jacket and