Foinavon Foinavon Foinavon (1958–1971) was an Irish racehorse. He won the Grand National in 1967 at odds of 100/1 after the rest of the field fell, refused or were hampered or brought down in a mêlée at the 23rd fence. The fence was officially named after Foinavon in 1984. He was at one point owned by Anne Grosvenor, Duchess of Westminster, whose colours were also carried by Arkle. Both were named after Scottish mountains. Foinavon, ridden by John Buckingham, was a rank outsider at odds of 100/1 to win the 1967 Grand National, and his owner Cyril Watkins had such little
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