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Irish Grand National Betting Tips, Winners & History

Meeting:
Easter Festival
Racecourse:
Fairyhouse
Grade:
Grade A

A packed field takes to Fairyhouse on Easter Monday for the always-thrilling Irish Grand National. It’s a race with a colourful history dating back to 1870 and several champions have also gone on to win the English equivalent at Aintree in subsequent years.

Next Race: TBD

The next renewal of this race has not been scheduled yet. We will update this once the schedule has been released for next season. The race info, trends and tips shown below will be updated for the next renewal once the final declarations have been made.

Last Run: 22nd April 2019

  • Winner: Burrows Saint
  • SP: 6/1
  • Trainer: Willie Mullins
  • Jockey: Ruby Walsh

Race Info

Runners involved here will have to take on 24 fences around Fairyhouse’s right-handed galloping course. There’s plenty of space on the wide track and it’s a place where there are rarely any hard luck stories to be found. With a huge purse of half a million euros, it’s the richest jumps race to take place in Ireland.

Going Distance Grade Prize Money Runners EW Terms
Yielding 3m5f Grade A €500,000 Max 30 Runners 1/4 1-4

Irish Grand National Betting Tips

Fairyhouse, 17:00, Monday 13th April 2020

Note: The following tips are from 2020. Tips for the next renewal will be added once the final declarations have been made.

Race cancelled.

Irish Grand National Winners

Year Winner SP Trainer Jockey
2020 Abandoned - - -
2019 Burrows Saint 6/1 Willie Mullins Ruby Walsh
2018 General Principle 20/1 Gordon Elliott J J Slevin
2017 Our Duke 9/2 Jessica Harrington Robbie Power
2016 Rogue Angel 16/1 Mouse Morris Ger Fox
2015 Thunder and Roses 20/1 Sandra Hughes Katie Walsh
2014 Shutthefrontdoor 8/1 Jonjo O’Neill Barry Geraghty
2013 Liberty Counsel 50/1 Dot Love Ben Dalton
2012 Lion Na Bearnai 33/1 Thomas Gibney Andrew Thorton
2011 Organisedconfusion 12/1 Arthur Moore Nina Carberry

About the Irish Grand National: An Easter Treat at Fairyhouse

Horse Race at Fairyhouse
Celtic prints, Bigstockphoto.com

Aintree’s Grand National may be the single biggest jumps race of the calendar year, but it is far from the only jumping and staying marathon on offer for fans of the National Hunt game. So popular is the Merseyside showpiece, that it has spawned imitators far and wide, including close to home in Scotland, Wales and Ireland, each of whom now have an immensely popular Grand National of their own.

Of that trio, it is the Irish Grand National which is first up in the calendar year as we head to the County Meath venue of Fairyhouse for this Easter Monday spectacular. A 3m5f handicap contest open to chasers aged five years and older, the race is invariably one of the most eagerly anticipated contests of the season for racing fans on the Emerald Isle, and indeed here in the UK.

First run back in 1870, and now acting as one of the headline acts of the Fairyhouse Easter Festival, many a star performer has strutted their stuff over the 24 fences of this contest over the years, including two or the most famous horses to ever set hoof on the turf: Arkle and Desert Orchid, who won the race in 1964 and 1990 respectively.

Dreaping It in the Family

Way out on his own as the most successful trainer in the history of this great race is Tom Dreaper, the man who will forever be associated with the most talented chaser in the history of the sport. The brilliant Arkle was undoubtedly the most famous Dreaper-trained runner to come home in front here, but he wasn’t the only one, with the locally born handler landing the prize on a further nine occasions.

Chart Showing the Most Successful Irish Grand National Trainers Between 1942 and 2019

Dreaper certainly had the magic touch when it came to this race, and he seems to have passed some of that knowledge down to his son, Jim Dreaper, who himself trained four Irish Grand National winners over the course of his career.

Tom & Jim Dreaper’s Irish Grand National Wins

Year Trainer Horse Jockey Owner
1942 Tom Dreaper Prince Regent Timmy Hyde James V. Rank
1949 Tom Dreaper Shagreen E. Newman James V. Rank
1954 Tom Dreaper Royal Approach Pat Taaffe Lord Bicester
1960 Tom Dreaper Olympia Toss Taaffe Lord Donoughmore
1961 Tom Dreaper Fortria Pat Taaffe George Ansley
1962 Tom Dreaper Kerforo Liam McLoughlin Frank Stafford
1963 Tom Dreaper Last Link Paddy Woods Alec Craigie
1964 Tom Dreaper Arkle Pat Taaffe Anne, Duchess of Westminster
1965 Tom Dreaper Splash Paddy Woods Alec Craigie
1966 Tom Dreaper Flyingbolt Pat Taaffe T. Wilkinson
1974 Jim Dreaper Colebridge Eddie Wright Connie Burrell
1975 Jim Dreaper Brown Lad Tommy Carberry Connie Burrell
1976 Jim Dreaper Brown Lad Tommy Carberry Connie Burrell
1978 Jim Dreaper Brown Lad Gerry Dowd Connie Burrell

It’s As Easy As 1-2-3 For Mullins

He may be the most famous name in the training game when it comes to Irish National Hunt racing, and quite rightly so given his achievements both domestically and at the Cheltenham Festival in particular, but up until 2019 Willie Mullins had never won this event.

If you are going to break your duck in a race, then you might as well do it in style, and Mullins followed that to the letter in the year in which he also landed the Cheltenham Gold Cup for the first time. Not content with training the winner, Burrows Edge, Mullins also saddled the runner up Isleofhopesanddreams, and third-placed finisher, Acapella Bourgeois. A truly fantastic achievement in one of the most competitive handicaps of the Irish season.

Irish Grand National 2019 Result

Position Horse Trainer Jockey Weight Age SP
1st Burrows Saint Willie Mullins Ruby Walsh 10st 8lbs 6 6/1 F
2nd Isleofhopendreams Willie Mullins Danny Mullins 10st 7lbs 12 20/1
3rd Acapella Bourgeois Willie Mullins Jonathan Burke 11st 0lbs 9 18/1
4th Snugsborough Benny Liam P. Cusak Denis O’Regan 10st 9lbs 9 14/1

Brown Brings The House Down

No tale of the history of this great race would be complete without mention of the single most successful horse in the history of the contest: the tough, talented and genuine Brown Lad. First successful for Jim Dreaper in 1975, he returned to successfully defend his crown one year later, thus joining Scots Grey, The Gift, Little Hack II and Halston as the only two-time winners of the race.

Not content with that though, the then 12 year old Brown Lad rolled back the years to lead them all home once again in 1978, becoming the first and (as of 2019) only three-time champion.

Chart Showing Horses That Have Won Multiple Irish Grand Nationals Between 1870 and 2019

Other Races of Note at Fairyhouse

  • Hatton’s Grace Hurdle
  • Irish Grand National
  • Tote Gold Cup Novice Chase

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