Grand National Entries 2022

The 2022 Grand National promises to be a superb renewal with entries including two previous Aintree Grand National winners (Tiger Roll and Minella Times), two Irish National winners (Burrows Saint and Freewheelin Dylan), three Welsh National winners (Elegant Escape, Potters Corner and Secret Reprieve) and the most recent winner of the Scottish National (Mighty Thunder).

If you add in some of the horses previously placed in the Grand National (Any Second Now, Blaklion and Anibale Fly) and former Cheltenham Festival winners such as Chantry House, Easysland, Galvin, Mount Ida, Santini and Samcro and we have the prospect of a crackerjack race at Aintree in April 2022.

107 horses have been entered in the 2022 Grand National:

1. Achille 12yo Venetia Williams
2. Agusta Gold 9yo Willie Mullins
3. Alpha Des Obeaux 12yo Gordon Elliott
4. Anibale Fly 12yo Tony Martin
5. Any Second Now 10yo Ted Walsh
6. Assemble 8yo Joseph O'Brien
7. Back On The Lash 8yo Martin Keighley
8. Battleoverdoyen 9yo Gordon Elliott
9. Blaklion 13yo Dan Skelton
10. Brace Yourself 9yo Noel Meade
11. Braeside 8yo Gordon Elliott
12. Brahma Bull 9yo Willie Mullins
13. Burrows Saint 9yo Willie Mullins
14. Caribean Boy 8yo Nicky Henderson
15. Chantry House 8yo Nicky Henderson
16. Chatham Street Lad 10yo Michael Winters
17. Chris's Dream 10yo Henry De Bromhead
18. Class Conti 10yo Willie Mullins
19. Cloth Cap 10yo Jonjo O'Neill
20. Cloudy Glen 9yo Venetia Williams
21. Coko Beach 7yo Gordon Elliott
22. Commodore 10yo Venetia Williams
23. Conflated 8yo Gordon Elliott
24. Court Maid 9yo Thomas Mullins
25. Death Duty 11yo Gordon Elliott
26. Defi Bleu 9yo Gordon Elliott
27. Definite Plan 10yo Gordon Elliott
28. Deise Aba 9yo Philip Hobbs
29. Delta Work 9yo Gordon Elliott
30. De Rasher Counter 10yo Emma Lavelle
31. Didero Vallis 9yo Venetia Williams
32. Dingo Dollar 10yo Sandy Thomson
33. Discorama 9yo Paul Nolan
34. Discordantly 8yo Jessica Harrington
35. Domaine De L'isle 9yo Sean Curran
36. Double Shuffle 12yo Tom George
37. Easysland 8yo Jonjo O'Neill
38. Eclair Surf 8yo Emma Lavelle
39. Eklat De Rire 8yo Henry De Bromhead
40. Elegant Escape 10yo Colin Tizzard
41. El Presente 9yo Kim Bailey
42. Enjoy D'Allen 8yo Ciaran Murphy
43. Escaria Ten 8yo Gordon Elliott
44. Eurobot 8yo Noel Meade
45. Farclas 8yo Gordon Elliott
46. Fiddlerontheroof 8yo Colin Tizzard
47. Fortescue 8yo Henry Daly
48. Franco De Port 7yo Willie Mullins
49. Freewheelin Dylan 10yo Dermot A McLoughlin
50. Full Back 7yo Gary Moore
51. Galvin 8yo Gordon Elliott
52. Go Another One 10yo John C McConnell
53. Good Boy Bobby 9yo Nigel Twiston-Davies
54. Gwencily Berbas 11yo David Pipe
55. Highland Hunter 9yo Paul Nicholls
56. Hill Sixteen 9yo Sandy Thomson
57. Itchy Feet 8yo Olly Murphy
58. Jerrysback 10yo Philip Hobbs
59. Jett 11yo Olly Murphy
60. Kalooki 8yo Philip Hobbs
61. Kapcorse 9yo Paul Nicholls
62. Kauto Riko 11yo Tom Gretton
63. Kildisart 10yo Ben Pauling
64. Larry 9yo Gary Moore
65. Longhouse Poet 8yo Martin Brassil
66. Lord Du Mesnil 9yo Richard Hobson
67. Lostintranslation 10yo Colin Tizzard
68. Mac Tottie 9yo Peter Bowen
69. Melon 10yo Willie Mullins
70. Mighty Thunder 9yo Lucinda Russell
71. Milan Native 9yo Gordon Elliott
72. Minella Times 9yo Henry De Bromhead
73. Mister Fogpatches 8yo P A Fahy
74. Mister Whitaker 10yo Donald McCain
75. Mortal 10yo Gordon Elliott
76. Mount Ida 8yo Godon Elliott
77. Noble Yeats 7yo Emmet Mullins
78. Off You Go 9yo Charles Byrnes
79. Ontheropes 8yo Willie Mullins
80. Phoenix Way 9yo Harry Fry
81. Pink Eyed Pedro 11yo David Brace
82. Plan Of Attack 9yo Henry De Bromhead
83. Poker Party 10yo Henry De Bromhead
84. Potters Corner 12yo Christian Williams
85. Robin De Foret 12yo John C McConnell
86. Roi Marge 10yo Patrick Griffin
87. Romain De Senam 10yo David Pipe
88. Run Wild Fred 8yo Gordon Elliott
89. Sam Brown 10yo Anthony Honeyball
90. Samcro 10yo Gordon Elliott
91. Santini 10yo Polly Gundry
92. School Boy Hours 9yo Noel Meade
93. Scoir Mear 12yo Thomas Mullins
94. Secret Reprieve 8yo Evan Williams
95. Smoking Gun 9yo Gordon Elliott
96. Snow Leopardess 10yo Charlie Longsdon
97. Stones And Roses 8yo Willie Mullins
98. The Big Dog 9yo Peter Fahey
99. The Hollow Ginge 9yo Nigel Twiston-Davies
100. The Two Amigos 10yo Nicky Martin
101. Tiger Roll 12yo Gordon Elliott
102. Time To Get Up 9yo Jonjo O'Neill
103. Top Ville Ben 10yo Philip Kirby
104. Two For Gold 9yo Kim Bailey
105. Uisce Beatha 9yo Sophie Leech
106. Via Dolorosa 10yo David Pipe
107. Windsor Avenue 10yo Brian Ellison

The following thirteen trainers have previously won the Grand National and have at least one entrant in the race for 2022:

Kim Bailey won the Grand National in 1990 with Mr Frisk has two horses entered for 2022: El Presente and Two For Gold

Martin Brassil won the Grand National in 2006 with Numbersixvvalverde has one horse entered for 2022: Longhouse Poet

Henry De Bromhead won the Grand National in 2021 with Minella Times has five horses entered for 2022: Chris's Dream, Eklat De Rire, Minella Times, Plan Of Attack and Poker Party

Gordon Elliott won the Grand National in 2007 with Silver Birch and 2018 and 2019 with Tiger Roll. Elliott has nineteen horses entered for 2022: Alpha Des Obeaux, Battleoverdoyen, Braeside, Coko Beach, Death Duty, Defi Bleu, Definite Plan, Delta Work, Escaria Ten, Farclas, Galvin, Milan Native, Mortal, Mount Ida, Run Wild Fred, Samcro, Smoking Gun and Tiger Roll.

Donald McCain won the 2011 Grand National with Ballabriggs and has Mister Whitaker entered for 2022

Willie Mullins won the Grand National in 2005 with Hedgehunter. Mullins has eight entries for 2022: Agusta Gold, Brahma Bull, Burrows Saint, Class Conti, Franco De Port, Melon, Ontheropes and Stones and Roses.

Paul Nicholls was successful in the Grand National with Neptune Collonges in 2012. Nicholls has two entries for the 2022 Grand National: Highland Hunter and Kapcorse.

Jonjo O'Neill won the Grand National in 2010 with Don't Push It. O'Neill has three entries for 2022: Cloth Cap, Easysland, Time To Get Up

David Pipe won the Grand National with Comply Or Die in 2008. Pipe has three entries in 2022: Gwecily Berbas, Romain De Senam and Via Dolorosa

Lucinda Russell's One For Arthur won the Grand National in 2017 and Russell has entered Mighty Thunder for 2022

Nigel Twiston-Davies has twice won the Grand National with Earth Summit in 1998 and Bindaree in 2002. Twiston-Davies has entered Good Boy Bobby and The Hollow Ginge in 2022

Ted Walsh won the National in 2000 with Papillon. For 2022, Ted has entered Any Second Now

Venetia Williams won the Grand National with Mon Mome in 2009. Williams has entered four horses for 2022: Achille, Cloudy Glen, Commodore and Didero Vallis

• Two previous Grand National winning horses have been entered for the 2022 race: Tiger Roll (2018 and 2019) and Minella Times (2021)
• As well as the two previous Grand National winners, three other horses have won alternative races over the Grand National course: Blaklion (2017 Becher Chase), Mac Tottie (2021 Grand Sefton) and Snow Leopardess (2021 Becher Chase)
  
• Leading owner JP McManus has won the Grand National twice, in 2010 with Don't Push It (ridden by AP McCoy) and 2021 with Minella Times (ridden by Rachael Blackmore). McManus has twelve of the 107 entries for 2022. That works out at 11% of the total number of the horses entered!
• JP McManus' twelve entries are split between eleven different trainers
• 53 (49.5%) of the 107 entries are from trainers based in Ireland
• Ten of the first eleven horses across the line last year were trained in Ireland
• Fifteen horses completed the course in last year's Grand National and of those fifteen, nine have been entered again for 2022. They are: Minella Times (1st), Any Second Now (3rd), Burrows Saint (4th), Farclas (5th), Blaklion (6th), Discorama (7th), Jett (8th), Alpha Des Obeaux (11th) and Class Conti (15th)
• Despite radically cutting back on their horses in training, three time Grand National winning owners, Gigginstown House Stud, have 14 entries (13%) in the 2022 Grand National. The famous Gigginstown colours have previously won the National with Rule The World (2016) and Tiger Roll in 2018 and 2019
• Gordon Elliott (19) and Willie Mullins (8) are by far the two trainers with the most horses numerically entered in the 2022 Grand National. Between them they have over 25% of the total field!
• The familiar green, white and yellow silks of recently deceased owner Trevor Hemmings have been carried to victory three times in the Grand National: Hedgehunter in 2005, Ballabriggs in 2011 and Many Clouds in 2015. The Hemmings colours could be carried in 2022 by Cloth Cap, Cloudy Glen and Deise Aba
• The last six winners of the Grand National have been aged eight or nine. From the 2022 entries the number of each age horses entered is as follows: 7yo 4 (4%), 8yo 26 (24%), 9yo 33 (31%), 10yo 29 (27%), 11yo 6 (6%), 12yo 8 (7%) and one thirteen-year-old (Blaklion)
• The actual weights that each horse will be allotted will be published later this month. Based on the horses entered and their current official rating, Gordon Elliott's Galvin would be the top-rated horse in the field on a mark of 167.
• Over the last five years the lowest official rating that has made it into the final field for the Grand National has been as follows: 2021 = 145, 2019 = 142, 2018 = 142, 2017 = 143, 2016 = 145. These figures would suggest that if your long-range fancy currently has a rating of under 140 you may want to reconsider!