Jack Horner
Grand National (1926, Aintree)
SireCyllius
GrandsireCyllene
DamMeltons Guide
DamsireMelton
SexGelding
Foaled1917
CountryUnited Kingdom
ColourChestnut
BreederJohn Musker
OwnerCharles Schwartz
TrainerHarvey Leader
Major wins
Grand National (1926)

Jack Horner (foaled 1917 by Cyllius out of Meltons Guide) was a British Thoroughbred race horse who won the 1926 Grand National.

Background

A week before the Grand National Mr. A.C. Schwartz bought Jack Horner for 5,000 guineas.[1][2] He had previously finished seventh in the 1925 running of the race when ridden by the American amateur Morgan de Witt Blair.

Grand National

In 1926, ridden by the Tasmanian jockey William Watkinson, Jack Horner started at odds of 25/1 in a field of thirty runners. The gelding took the lead in the closing stages and won by three lengths from Old Tay Bridge.[3] Watkinson, who received £4,000 from the winning owner, was killed in a fall at Bogside Racecourse three weeks later.

Retirement

Jack Horner sustained a serious injury in training shortly afterwards and was retired without competing again.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Luck of the Lincolnshire". Melbourne, Vic: Argus. 8 May 1926. Retrieved 2009-04-04.
  2. ↑ "Grand National". Time Magazine. April 9, 1928. Archived from the original on March 5, 2011. Retrieved 2009-04-04.
  3. ↑ "THE GRAND NATIONAL". Auckland Star. 27 March 1926. Retrieved 2012-10-16.
  4. ↑ Green, Reg (1993). The History of the Grand National: A Race Apart. Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 0-340-58515-3.
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