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Red Marauder

Red Marauder
Sire Gunner B
Grandsire Royal Gunner
Dam Cover Your Money
Damsire Precipice Wood
Sex Gelding
Foaled 4 March 1990
Country Chestnut
Colour United Kingdom
Breeder Mrs D Jenks
Owner Norman Mason
Trainer Norman Mason
Record 21: 9-3-1
Earnings £392,206
Honours
First National Bank Gold Cup (1998)
Grand National (2001)
Last updated on 16 April 2012

Red Marauder (1990 - 2016) was a race horse that won the 2001 Grand National at 33/1. Only four horses completed the race successfully - two of those having been remounted - due partly to the desperate conditions at Aintree and mainly thanks to the loose horse Paddy's Return causing mayhem at the Canal Turn.

Red Marauder and Smarty had the race to themselves for much of the second circuit before the former surged clear of his tired rival from two out to record a distance victory. It was the slowest time recorded for a Grand National for one hundred and eighteen years.

The Grand National win was a first for Sunderland-based horse owner Norman Mason who had entered Red Marauder in the previous year's race where he fell.

Trainer Richard Guest was also the jockey that day and was in possession of the retired horse until his death at the age of 26 on 22 November 2016.



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