False start in the National, horses recalled before they made it to the first.
Jeez again. What is with those English starters? Let them go for Godsakes!
Mon Mome at 100/1.
Liam Threadwell’s first ride in the National.
Venetia William’s becomes second woman to train a national winner.
Screens up for Butler’s Cabin.
Anyone located video?
late to the party but
It was shown live on HRTV. What they won’t tell us is what happens to the fallers. It sort of does my heart good to see the loose horses fencing so well. Too bad they weren’t able to keep their riders!
Amazing to see about 15 horses line up across the course coming to the second last. Anyone could have won it that point. Plucky run from Comply or Die to finish 2nd.
- Mon Mome 100/1
- Comply or Die 14/1
- My Will 8/1
Great race,
jingles for Butlers Cabin.
I watched all morning on Justin TV.
They are now re-running the race with arial views.
Quite amazing.
Yeah, the BBC does some amazing camera work when it comes to the National.
Now, the rest of their coverage leaves a bit to be desired, but the camera work… Just top notch.
Butlers Cabin is okay ,he and 3 others were given oxygen after the race.
One horse was lost I could’nt catch his name,may have been something Haylo.
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Butlers Cabin is okay ,he and 3 others were given oxygen after the race.
One horse was lost I could’nt catch his name,may have been something Haylo.[/QUOTE]
I think it was Hear The Echo
Yes, Hear The Echo collasped and died. 
Comply Or Die, Butler’s Cabin and State of Play were all given oxygen after the race. Butler’s Cabin also collasped, but is up and in his stable now.
Rest In Peace Hear The Echo! You ran such a brave race as well!
Aintree.com has the video of all the races from the meeting. A first for the site and something I love. 
The GN is like Christmas for me, a day I look forward to all year.
The race was amazing, ten or twelve in with a real chance two from home. Awesome!
100-1 shot Mon Mome wins Grand National
Associated Press
Updated: April 4, 2009, 3:11 PM EST
LIVERPOOL, England (AP) - Liam Treadwell rode 100-1 shot Mon Mome to a 12-length victory in the Grand National on Saturday.
The 9-year-old horse, which finished 10th last year, equaled Foinavon in 1967 as the biggest-priced winner in the 4 1/2-mile, 30-fence slog around Aintree.
In a race delayed by two false starts, the outsider stretched away from his rivals after jumping the last of the fences.
“How can you ever expect that in a race like this?” trainer Venetia Williams said amid the celebrations.
Comply or Die, last year’s winner, was second in the 162nd running of the world’s most famous steeplechase. My Will finished third, ahead of State of Play.
“It’s an absolutely unbelievable finish, I had the perfect run through the race, he jumped brilliant for me,” the 23-year-old Treadwell said. “He gave me such a great ride. He was an absolute pleasure to ride. He is so genuine.”
The race was again marred by a death, as Hear The Echo collapsed and died just a few hundred feet from the winning post. He was the fifth horse to die this year in the three-day meeting. Butler’s Cabin, one of the pre-race favorite, also collapsed and had to be given oxygen.
Williams became only the second woman after 1983 and '95 winner Jenny Pitman to train a National winner.
“It was just unbelievable,” said Williams, whose career as an amateur jockey ended after a fall in the 1988 Grand National. “The owner was watching the wrong horse for the first part of the race and she thought it was out the back. I’m so proud of the horse. I’m so proud of Liam for giving him such a good ride, and the girl who looks after him as well.”
Few punters at the Liverpool course had cause to celebrate Mon Mome’s unexpected triumph.
“The loudest cheers today came from the nation’s bookmakers,” Coral spokesman David Stevens said.
William Hill spokesman David Hood echoed the sentiment, saying the result provided a “bonanza day” for bookmakers. “Such is the enormity of the Grand National that the first half-year profit-and-loss can rest on the result of this one race, and we could not have written a better script for a winner,” he said. “The placings will have saved a fortune for punters, with Comply Or Die, My Will and State of Play all well-fancied and backed each way, but what a winner.”
It would take four hours for the race to download on my computer. So, since I can’t see the finish, I’m wondering if the extra weight that Comply or Die had to carry from winning last year might have made a difference.
Anyone?
I definitely think the extra weight made a difference, although Mon Mome was still full of running at the end. A few pounds less and Comply Or Die would have made more of a race of it.
Given that Mon Mome was a good 12 lengths in front of Comply or Die, and finished full of running, I’m not sure you can point to the 6lb weight differential between the two as being the deciding factor. The generally accepted formula for NH racing is 1lb per length (though I suppose that one could argue that in a race as long as the National that it might be as low as ½lb per length).
Still a gallant performance by Comply or Die though.
Interestingly, the first four home were all carrying 11 stone or more.
Neither Mon Mome nor Comply or Die would be eligible to run in the United States because neither is full TB. In Mon Mome’s case, he has an Anglo Arab in his damline in Le Verglas, and Comply or Die’s tail female line is not pure.
