The best ride you've seen in the Grand National since 1960?

[Dragut]

A mention for 51 year old Rosemary Henderson on Fiddlers Pike in 1994, finished fifth which at the time was the highest place finish for a female jockey.

[Drone]

What a fab duo they were, always brought a smile to my face watching them

After his return as a 15yo at Warwick, Timeform admirably described his seasonal proespects thus:

FIDDLERS PIKE still has enthusiasm and can still jump, but he has no speed at all nowadays, and he’s going to be hard pressed to win anything.

And before that season’s Cross Country at Chelters, Mark Winstanley in the Sporting Life came up with the witticism:

Fiddlers Pike should be carrying Rosemary Henderson around Sainsbury’s on a Saturday morning, not carrying her around Cheltenham

Which could well have been the case shortly afterwards, as following one more stroll he was retired

[Devonian]

droffats wrote:

Richard Pitman on Pendil. Superb ride and got caught by possibly the best National horse ever giving away lumps of weight

You meant to say Crisp right ?

[graysonscolumn]

Twelfth home and beaten 89l they may well have been, but Paul Moloney’s completion aboard the dyspraxic gelding-cum-cyborg Buywise in 2016 was one hell of a feat of jockeyship.

I’ve no idea whether Chris Pitt intends to produce an updated version of Go Down to the Beaten, his account of a specific non-winner from each of the past however many decades worth of Nationals, but I’d nominate Buywise and his connections as the candidates for that year’s renewal any day of the week.

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[Middle_Of_March]

Derek Fox.

One for Arthur.

Not only for landing my biggest win ever but for spending the whole race at the back and moving through the pack in the last two miles gradually and calmly.

Super stuff

[Quelle Farce]

graysonscolumn wrote:

Twelfth home and beaten 89l they may well have been, but Paul Moloney’s completion aboard the dyspraxic gelding-cum-cyborg Buywise in 2016 was one hell of a feat of jockeyship.

I’ve no idea whether Chris Pitt intends to produce an updated version of <em class=”d4pbbc-italic”>Go Down to the Beaten, his account of a specific non-winner from each of the past however many decades worth of Nationals, but I’d nominate Buywise and his connections as the candidates for that year’s renewal any day of the week.

gc

Please elaborate. I am sure I’d enjoy it.

[Ex RubyLight]

I have a sequence of rides:
2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016

All completions, all by the same jockey, numerous top 4 placings without winning.
Roughly 240 National fences in a row…… There can be (almost) no better proof I guess.

[Middle_Of_March]

Ex RubyLight wrote:

I have a sequence of rides:
2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016

All completions, all by the same jockey, numerous top 4 placings without winning.
Roughly 240 National fences in a row…… There can be (almost) no better proof I guess.

I backed that jockeys horse on a fair few of those occasions – State of Play and Cappa blue

Paul Maloney

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