When did the last entire horse win the English grand national?

Question

When did the last entire horse win the English grand national?

Answer 1

do you mean have all the horses who started the race finish it? i have looked on some of the grand national web sites and cant see anything about it so i dont know sorry but im sure it would still be big news if it has ever happened and people would at least mention it.

Answer 2

Merryman II, winner of the Grand National in 1960, is listed in one source I have as an entire; but on another, he's listed as a gelding.  The very oddly-named E.S.B, winner in 1956, is likewise listed in one source as an entire but in another as a gelding.  Nickel Coin, winner in 1951, was a mare;  so was the winner in 1948, Sheila's Cottage, which I know isn't exactly what you're looking for, but they were both "entire"-- just female.  

The last undoubted entire that I find listed as winner was the American horse Battleship, son of Man O' War, who won the race in 1938.  Proof that he was an entire: he sired at least 57 offspring, the best of which was Shipboard, a winner of $141K in the 1940's when that was a respectable earnings for a career.  Another of his offspring, Seventeen Guns, made an incredible 191 starts, with 27 wins and more than 50 placings, for earnings of just $32,700.  

By and large, entire males don't do steeplechasing, in part because stallions are the dickens to be around for the most part;  also, their physical development as they mature (getting heavier through the neck and shoulders) goes against steeplechasing's physical requirements, and finally, there is no reason to keep a 'chaser entire, because there wouldn't be much demand for him at stud.

Answer 3

Eh?  

Can you rephrase your question?  I don't think I understand you.  The race is always won by an entire horse - they don't allow part-horses to enter!

Unless this is a trick question as there is NO race called the 'English Grand National', it's just the 'Grand National'.

EDIT:  Thanks to Karin C I know understand your question...  Sorry about that!