1967 Grand National did make up considerable ground, especially Josh Gifford on 15/2 favourite Honey End, none had time to catch Foinavon before he passed the finishing post 15 lengths clear. His success paid out a record 444/1 on the Tote. After the race, commentator Michael O'Hehir suggested that with obstacles like Becher's Brook and Valentine's, the 23rd might one day be named after Foinavon. In 1984, the Aintree executive officially named the fence (the smallest on the course at 4 ft 6 in) the "Foinavon fence". As part of the BBC's coverage of the 2010 Grand National, jockey John Buckingham described some
2012 Grand National the Foinavon fence, and said afterward: "I was lucky at the first because he slithered into the back of it. At the seventh he just took his eye off the fence and that was it." Denis O'Regan said that Black Apalachi was fine after his fall at the Canal Turn and that he had "got in too tight and tipped over". Andrew Thornton was unseated from Tatenen at the Turn, saying, "I was squeezed and had no daylight. It can happen at that fence and it happened to me." Robert Power was also unseated at the fence, later saying that