This time last year if you heard you were going to win a Grand National and we’d all be here to celebrate it it would be a great result. McManus – who conceded he had a “little on” his heavily-backed winner – added: “The Grand National is something very special and there is such a tradition with it. Red Rum is the figurehead of the National, it’s nice to be even mentioned in the same breath as Red Rum. I got em both.”Paul Townend celebrating after I Am Maximus won the Grand National for the second year in a row at Aintree. Fell, unseated rider or pulled up: Banbridge (unseated rider); Grangeclare West (unseated rider); Gerri Colombe (fell); Spanish Harlem (pulled up); Lecky Watson (pulled up); Oscar’s Brother (fell); Mr Vango (fell); Stellar Story (fell); Beauport (unseated rider);Captain Cody (unseated rider); Jagwar (unseated rider); Perceval Legallois (unseated rider); The Real Whacker (pulled up); Quai De Bourbon (fell); Marble Sands (fell); Panic Attack (fell); Top Of The Bill (fell); Amirite (pulled up).

Source: Irish Examiner April 12, 2026 04:39 UTC