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
1986 Grand National fell at the fourth. "Last Suspect" was always well to the rear before being pulled up at the eighteenth fence but both "West Tip" and "Mr Snugfit" were well in contention in a leading group of eight crossing the Melling Road towards the second last fence. "West Tip" had cruised up into second place at that point behind the 66/1 outsider, "Young Driver" with "Classified", "The Tsarevich" and "Sommelier" the other challengers with "Mr Snugfit" having dropped back to eighth. "West Tip" moved upsides "Young Driver" after jumping the final fence and always looked comfortable on the run in despite