1967 Grand National began running in the wrong direction, back the way they had come. The undistinguished Foinavon, whose owner had such little faith in him that he had travelled to Worcester on race day instead, had been lagging so far behind that his jockey, John Buckingham, had sufficient time to steer his mount wide of the mêlée and find a small gap in the fence to jump cleanly on the outside. Being on the only horse over the 23rd at the first attempt, Buckingham found himself with a surprise lead of 30 lengths. Although 17 jockeys remounted to give chase and 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