2009 Grand National
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| Location | Aintree Racecourse |
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| Date | 4 April 2009 |
| Winning horse | Mon Mome |
| SP | 100/1 |
| Jockey | Liam Treadwell |
| Trainer | Venetia Williams |
| Owner | Vida Bingham |
| Conditions | Good |
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The 2009 Grand National (known as the John Smith's Grand National for sponsorship reasons) was the 162nd running of the Grand National horse race that took place at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool, England, on 4 April 2009.
A 100/1 outsider, the French-bred Mon Mome, ridden by Liam Treadwell, won the race by 12 lengths from the previous year's winner Comply or Die (14/1) in a time of 9 minutes 34 seconds. Mon Mome became the first 100/1 shot to win since Foinavon in 1967. He also became the first winner of the race to have been bred in France for 100 years.
Mon Mome was trained by Venetia Williams at her Herefordshire stables and was owned by Vida Bingham of East Sussex.
Seventeen runners completed the 4 mile 4 furlong course over Aintree's National circuit. Hear The Echo collapsed during the latter stages of the race and later died.
Note: Trained in Great Britain unless otherwise stated in brackets.
2007 Irish Grand National winner Butler's Cabin was made the favourite having fallen in the previous year's National when going well and in addition he had champion jockey Tony McCoy in the saddle. The favourite was still among a group of sixteen horses who still held serious chances with four fences to jump but he made a mistake at the 27th and was always struggling to get back on terms with those at the head of the group. After the race, jockey Tony McCoy said: "He ran OK. He's probably still a bit high in the handicap. From Becher's on the second circuit he was just starting to get a little bit tired and he made a lot of little mistakes late on."
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