Moifaa
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Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Moifaa was a New Zealand-bred racehorse who won the 1904 Grand National by eight lengths.[1] The jockey was Arthur Birch and the owner at the time was Spencer Gollan.[2][3]
After winning the Grand National the 17 hand gelding was purchased for King Edward VII, but never won again and was soon thereafter retired to the hunting fields of Leicestershire.[4][3] Moifaa was present at the King’s funeral in 1910 ridden by the king’s friend, Major General John Brocklehurst.[5][6][7]
The popular story that Moifaa survived a shipwreck before winning the Grand National is not true. Another contender in the 1904 Grand National, an Australian-bred gelding named Kiora, did survive a shipwreck off the coast of Cape Town in October 1899, where he was found standing on a rock near the site of the wreck. Another horse on board named Chesney allegedly swam a great distance to shore.[8]
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