A brief history of the Irish Grand National

The Irish Grand National race is an annual event held at the racecourse Fairy House. The race was run in 1870 for a total of 167 sovereigns, and the Grand Prize winner was a horse called "Sir Robert Peel." Two years later, Gray Scottish took the prize for the first time, then won again in 1875 to the first double winner. The race is organized every year since then, with only two exceptions? 1919 and 1941, during the First and Second World War.
Legendary horses winning the Irish Grand National in 1964 ARKLS, Flying Bolt in 1966, Rhyme and reason in 1985 and Desert Orchid in 1990.
2009 Irish Grand National was won by English raider, niche market, used by Harry Skelton and trained by Bob Buckler. Eight years, won against the 33 / 1 and finished several lengths ahead of the island of the Church (50 / 1).
The Irish Grand National is run over 3 miles 5 doors Furlong 23 jumped.It is a handicap for horses racing for five years or more and is Ireland's most prestigious steeplechase race.
Steeple Chasing was born in Ireland and England in the 1700s and has gained a strong following in Ireland by mid-1800. The word "steeple chase" is used officially for the first time in 1807 in the Irish Racing Calendar. Steeple Chasing just racing cross country known as the beat the races where the riders chose their own path, with the first steeple chase is the result of a bet in 1752 between Cornelius O'Callaghan and Edmund Blake, who ran four miles (6 km) cross country Butt in the Church of St. Leger Church in Doneraile in Cork, Ireland. Records of the contest are available at Dromoland Castle in County Clare. The winner of a steeplechase race is the one that has survived the other riders, and the orientation of the course was by reference to a tower? riders are often bell tower? to agree on one point for organized races, with fewer falls and injuries to bear, but this type of racing, the horses had to deal with uneven and sometimes dangerous terrain and jumps. Of course, this "eternal" races can not continue forever, if a course was set up in Bedford, England in 1810, which was 3 miles of 8 fences.
By the middle of 1890 the courses were built in many places, including Ireland, the Irish Grand National, by far the most popular race, founded in 1870 on Fairy House.
Regulation clocher Chasing sport began in the 1860s with the Irish National Hunt Steeplechase Committee in Ireland and the Grand National Hunt Committee, England. The Grand National Hunt Committee changed its name in the National Hunt Committee in 1889.