Esha Ness triumphs in the Grand National that never was

Liam Mackey reflects on the twentieth anniversary of the infamous Grand National that got left at the start.

As ever, it was celebrated commentator Peter O’Sullevan who was the first to call it right, live on the BBC: “As they race up to the line, in the National that surely isn’t, Esha Ness is the winner.”

It was April 3, 1993 at Aintree and, for the first and only time in its history, the Grand National was declared void, destined to enter the annals as ‘The Race That Never Was’.