1923 Grand National

Friday 23rd March 1923
Winner:-Sergeant Murphy
Owned by Steven Sandford, Trained by George Blackwell @ Newmarket, Ridden by Captain Tuppy Bennett.
2nd :- Shaun Spadah
3rd :-Conjuror II
4th :- Punt Gun

28 ran:-7 finished
Favourite:- Forewarned {fell 1st circuit}

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• grand
• national
• aintree
• 1923
• sergeant
• murphy
• tuppy
• bennett
• shaun
• spadah
• conjuror
• punt
• gun

[capriole57]

Completely awesome - Has anyone got the videos of Neville Crump's winners? 1948 Sheila's Cottage, 1952 Teal and 1960 Merryman II. Would love to see these.

[captainbeecher]

1948 Sheila's Cottage has now been added to you tube

[sirbates2]

Hello Smudger and jeda: We have the Sergeant in common! His owner, Laddie Sanford, was my great uncle. As the first American-owned horse to win the National, Sergeant Murphy is bigger than life in my family. I have hundreds of pictures of him. I never dreamed I'd see a film of him! Watching him here in motion after a lifetime of seeing him only in static form is surreal. I now hold the Sanford colors (purple and gold stripes) that he won the National under and run 'chasers in the US.

[captainbeecher]

@sirbates2 If your family have any relics of the race they they would be willing to loan then Aintree would be delighted to display it. Jane Clark runs a museum at the course with no public funding. The original colours for example would be fantastic. Aintree have some going back to 1891.

[JakeRothberg]

does he like curry, or should i not don't worry, ruurry or aunt vernny, or my eye site is blurry? BLAHHHHH.

[TheWolveswolves]

i bet they didn't charge £5.80 for a beef burger then.I great event but a rip off for the public.

[charleshannam]

Is it correct that Shaun Spadah is buried at what used to be Lewes racecourse? Was he trained in Lewes?

[tmckninetyseven]

My Grandfather bred Shaun Spadah the horse that came second. He won in 1921. Thanks so much for this posting.

[smudger1941]

George Blackwell the trainer was my Grandmothers half brother, he is much discussed in our familybut i had trouble getting the video to run, pity.