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Grand National

English horse race held at Aintree every year
Class type of: horse race, sports competition Q1542651

Facts

9 properties
Instance of
recurring sporting event
Inception
1839[6]
Country
United Kingdom[4]
Location
Aintree Racecourse[5]
Subclass of
horse race, sports competition
Coordinate location
🗺️ 53.477°, -2.942°
Event interval
+1[9]
Has characteristic
event affected by the WWI[8]
Sport
horse racing[7]
🏷️ Also known as
en Grand National ar السباق الوطني الكبير cs Velká národní fr Grand national (course hippique) fr Grand National (course hippique) he גרנד נשיונל ja グランドナショナル ko 그랜드 내셔널 nl Foinavon nl Grand National nl The Grand National tr Büyük Ulusal at yarışı tr Grand National at yarışı uk Гранд Нешнл zh 英国国家障碍赛马大赛
🔖 Identifiers · 7
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
sports/Grand-National-British-horse-race
Freebase ID
/m/0jx_4
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Grand_National
Lex ID
Grand_National_Handicap_Steeplechase
SNARC ID
Aconitum napellus
The Guardian topic ID
sport/grandnational
Topic's main category
Category:Grand National

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🔗 Connections
Country 1
United Kingdom
Instance of 1
sports competition
Location 1
Aintree Racecourse
SNARC ID 1
Aconitum napellus
← Competition won 1
Rachael Blackmore
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Summary

Grand National is a recurring sporting event[1]. It is a type of horse race[2] and sports competition[3].

Related Entities

United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 23d ago · TheaAlvaro · 2026-10-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → recurring sporting event
    Subclass of → horse race, sports competition
    Inception → 1839
    "Moving Instance of to Subclass of"
  2. 23w ago · Saldanha-mareo · 2026-06-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has characteristic → event affected by the WWI
    "Created claim: Has characteristic: event affected by the WWI, Copying from 1916 Grand National"
  3. 23w ago · Saldanha-mareo · 2026-05-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → recurring sporting event
    "Created claim: Instance of: recurring sporting event"
  4. 23w ago · Saldanha-mareo · 2026-05-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sport → horse racing
    "Created claim: Sport: horse racing"
  5. 23w ago · Saldanha-mareo · 2026-05-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → recurring sporting event
    Topic's main category → Category:Grand National
    Country → United Kingdom
    Event interval → 1 year
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: Event interval: 1 year"
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