[1] He was bought for 3,500 guineas as a three-year-old at the Ballsbridge Sales by the United States ambassador to Ireland Raymond R. Guest and went into training with Dan Moore.

[2] L'Escargot made his first appearance at the Cheltenham Festival in 1968 when he was a five-year-old, winning the second division of the Gloucestershire Hurdle with his regular jockey Tommy Carberry.

At the end of the season he went to the United States and ran three times, winning the Meadow Brook Chase at Belmont Park, New York, and being named US Champion Steeplechaser.

The favourite Kinloch Brae having fallen at the third-last fence, L'Escargot stayed on after the last to beat French Tan by a length and a half.

[1] It was owner Guest's intention that the twelve-year-old L'Escargot would be retired after his Grand National win, and he was given to his trainer's wife, Joan Moore.