[1] In 1922, aged two years, he was sold by Edwards to Joan Mary de Sales La Terriere for just 22 guineas, a conspicuously low price for a future champion.

[5] Widger would kept the horse in Ireland before selling him on to Walter H. Midwood in 1927, a Liverpool cotton trader and Master of the Cheshire Hunt, for 1,250 guineas.

[6] Midwood sent Shaun Goilin be trained under Irish jockey-turned-trainer, Frank Hartigan at his stables in Weyhill, Hampshire.

Ridden by Murtagh Keogh, Shaun Goilin took the lead at the last fence and pulled away from the field to win comfortably.

[18] In April that year, after placing third in the Scottish Grand National at Bogside, Shaun Goilin's retirement from racing was announced, aged 12.

[19] Yet his prodigious staying power as a fencer, in addition to his romantic origins from an unknown sire, made it a decision worthy of note.

Nevertheless, in February 1933, despite having not run a race since April of the previous year, owner Midwood arranged for Shaun Goilin to be allowed one final entry in the Grand National at Aintree.

[21] Retired for good after the 1933 Grand National, aged 13, Shaun Goilin was initially used by owner Midwood as a hunter.

It was reported at the time that Shaun Goilin "...escaped from his box at the stables and galloped round a paddock until exhaustion stopped him.

"'[23] In a tragic coincidence, Tommy Cullinan - Shaun Goilin's 1930 Grand National winning jockey - had died only days previously, on 11 April 1940, at the Oxfordshire Royal Air Force station where he was serving.