If Foinavon was indeed named after a mountain – and I'm not saying it wasn't – somebody got it wrong, because the name of the mountain is invariably spelt Foinaven.
I have been asked in the past which two Munros have won the Grand National, but in fact Foinaven is not quite a Munro; at 2,988 feet, it falls 12 feet short of the requisite height.
Ben Nevis is indisputably a Munro. As every quizzer should know, Ben Nevis (at 4,416 ft / 1,346 m) is the highest mountain in the British Isles.
Arkle is also a Scottish mountain (not a Munro), but the horse that was named after it raced on the flat and therefore never ran in the Grand National.
© Haydn Thompson 2017