Grey Horses
Many statisticians will be suggesting punters avoid grey horses in the Grand National as they have a poor record. First of all is their record that poor and secondly does that affect this year’s grey Grand National Runners?2012 Grey Grand National Runners
The grey runners for the 2012 Grand National are some way off being confirmed but they could include -Chicago Grey No big surprise that this one is a grey but if he makes it through to Aintree he could run a big race for grey horse supporters. Trained by a Grand National winning trainer in Gordon Elliott and proven form at four miles has to give this horse great credentials for the 2012 Grand National.
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Sorry. Silver By Nature is not running in the 2012 Grand National
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Another grey who could be running this year is
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Obviously greys have not fared too well recently but there have been very few runners relative to the field sizes and many of the grey runners have been completely unfancied anyway.| YEAR | NUMBER OF GREY RUNNERS | BEST GREY PLACING |
| 2011 | 4 | 12th |
| 2010 | 4 | 7th |
| 2009 | 1 | Did not complete |
| 2008 | 3 | 2nd |
| 2007 | 2 | Did not complete |
| 2006 | 1 | Did not complete |
| 2005 | 3 | 17th |
| 2004 | 3 | 9th |
2011 Grey Grand National Runners
Four greys made the line up in 2011 with Silver By Nature vying for favouritism and Character Building a well backed 25/1 shot. The other two grey competitors were Piraya, trained by David Pipe and Quolibet form the Jonjo O'Neill yard. Silver By Nature never really seemed at home on a quicker surface than he prefers but faired best of the greys coming in twelfth. Character Building finished seventh in 2010 but could not match that finish in 2011 after being hampered at Bechers first time round. Quolibet was rather thrown in at the deep end on what was only his second start in the UK and his lack of experience of British fences certainly showed when he finally unseated his rider at the eleventh fence after a series of blunders. Piraya did manage to finish the course but in nineteenth (and last!) place and over two hundred lengths behind the winner.The last grey horse to do really well in the Grand National was in 2008 when King Johns Castle finished a gallant runner up to Comply Or Die and he has performed by far the best of recent grey runners in the Grand National.
Two grey horses have won the Grand National, the most recent being in 1961 when Nicolaus Silver won. Desert Orchid was another top quality grey horse although he never ran in the Grand National. There is nothing to suggest that a grey horse should not win the Grand National and King Johns Castle has shown in recent times that there is no reason why one couldn't actually win the race again.
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