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The 1986 Grand National (known as the Seagram Grand National for sponsorship reasons) was the 140th renewal of the world-famous Grand National horse race that took place at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool, England, on 5 April 1986. The race was won by nine-year-old 15/2 second favourite West Tip, ridden by jockey Richard Dunwoody. in a time of 9 minutes, 33 seconds for a prize of £57,254. The winner was owned by Mr Peter Luff and trained in Droitwich, Worcestershire by Michael Oliver.〔A Race Apart, Reg Green, 1987, page 368-9〕 ==Build-up, leading contenders and the race== One hundred and nine horses were entered the 1986 Grand National of which fifty six stood their ground and declared to run 〔Grand Nationals of the 1980s, Christopher Simpson〕 For health and safety reasons only a maximum field of forty could take part so the sixteen entrants given the lowest handicap mark by handicapper, Captain Christopher Mordaunt 〔Sporting Life Souvenir Magazine, 9 April 1988, page 4〕 were forcibly withdrawn from the race. These included former competitors, ''King Spruce'', ''Onapromise'' and ''Colonel Christy'' 〔 The previous year's runner up, ''Mr Snugfit'' was installed as the 13/2 favourite 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1986 Grand National Results )〕 despite having been injured for a time during the season and having run unimpressively in his last four starts. Phil Tuck took the mount, as he had done last year.〔 with last year's favourite, ''West Tip'' was again heavily supported at 15/2 with many of his supporters feeling that he had been unlucky when falling at Becher's Brook while disputing the lead last year. His jockey on that occasion, Richard Dunwoody was released from his retainer on ''Port Askaig'' to take the mount on the second favourite.〔A Race Apart, Reg Green, 1987, Page 367〕 Four months before the National, West Tip had been defeated by the impressive chaser, ''Door Latch'', considered by the racing press as owner, Jim Joel's best chance of winning the race in his almost thirty years of trying. Richard Rowe took the mount on the 9/1 chance trained by former champion jockey Josh Gifford.〔Sporting Life Souvenir Magazine, 9 April 1988, Page 19〕 The remaining public support was placed in former winners, Corbiere and ''Last Suspect'' who would both set off at 14/1 in company of their riders in victory, Ben de Haan and Hywell Davies.〔A Race Apart, Reg Green, 1987, page 369〕 Aside from these main contenders the majority of the remainder of public support was placed with ''The Tsarevich'', former twice runner up, ''Greasepaint'' and 1984 winner ''Hallo Dandy'' at 16/1. Mark Dwyer was considered to have the best chance of the seven riders taking part in their debut National on board 18/1 shot ''Knock Hill''. Among the other six debut riders was future winner Steve Knight, riding ''Tracy's Special''.〔 Unusually there were no riders taking part with experience of more than six previous rides in the race with Steve Smith Eccles, on board ''Classified'' and Paul Barton, on ''Fethard Friend'' both taking their seventh mounts 〔 Starter, Michael Sayers was starting his third National and had some difficulty communicating instructions to Czech rider, Vaclav Chalupka, on board the top weight, ''Essex'' who did not speak English 〔Sporting Life Souvenir Magazine, 9 April 1988, page 11〕 but still managed to dispatch the forty competitors at the first attempt. Richard Rowe's race ended early when ''Door Latch'' exited at the first fence while ''Corbiere'' 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 flight. ''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 flight and always looked comfortable on the run in despite only defeating the outsider by two lengths. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1986 Grand National」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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