Betting on Number Of Grand National Finishers

Betting on Number Of Grand National Finishers
There is a maximum field of 40 for the Grand National and most renewals will have 40 Grand National runners.

Year Finishers Going
2010 14 Good
2009 17 Good to Soft
2008 15 Good
2007 12 Good
2006 9 Good to Soft
2005 21 Good to Soft
2004 11 Good
2003 14 Good
2002 11 Good
2001 4 Heavy
2000 17 Good
1999 18 Good
1998 6 Soft
1997 17 Good
1996 17 Good
1995 15 Good
1994 6 Heavy
1992 22 Good to Soft
1991 17 Good to Soft
1990 20 Firm

Those 40 are only a fraction of those entered for the race. It is the best 40 horses (the highest 40 in the weights) that are allowed to take their chance. For most jumps races the you would expect the majority of the field to finish the race. 

The Grand National however, is rather unique given the distance of the race (4miles 4 furlongs) and the massive fences the contestants must face (30 in total). This provides plenty of opportunity for horses to hit the deck. Add to that the amount of horses that are pulled up (about a fifth of the field) for reasons such as broken blood vessels, being too far behind or being lame.

Grand National Finishers - Recent History

All this considered you are only going to see about half of the field actually finish the race. Between 1990 and 2010 the most horses to finish the Grand National was 22 of the 40 runners in 1992. The fewest to finish was 4 runners in 2001. 

One pointer for number of Grand National finishers is obviously the jumping ability of the field. Going back and looking at number of falls for each contender is likely to show how good a jumper they are. A quicker indicator is to look at the going for the Grand National. Since 1990 the ground has come up soft or heavy three times. Only 16 horses finished in total over those three years. That s normally the amount of Grand National runners that finish one race. 

The most regular Grand National going type is genuinely good ground. This has occurred eleven times between 1990 and 2010 and there has always been between 11 and 18 finishers on that going. The grand national odds for number of finishers can be found below

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