Name these Grand National horses

Think we gonna need some bigger clues scrabby

7 Peter Simple.

7 Peter Simple?

1 Ally Sloper.

Are you querying my answer JM, might be someone else, don't know yet.

4 Mont Treblant.

No SR, you beat me to it (if it's correct of cours).

Think your 4 is 3 SR
And not enough letters

4 Annandale

Missed the M out, Mont Tremblant.

9 Ilex

Sorry No 3 Mont Tremblant.

Well done guys. So far,so good.

1.19thcentury comic character. (4,6)  Ally Sloper-looked amazingly like W C Fields.
2. Tower of shoes here. (10)
3. Ski resort. (4,9)  Mont Tremblant
4. Motorway services. (9)  Annandale
5. Famous dancer. (10)
6. American senator. (5)
7. Newspaper columnist. (5,6)  Peter Simple
8. Place in Ghana. (6)
9. Plant genus. (4)  Ilex
10. Half of a non-showbusiness duo. (5)

5 Ranunculus.

10 Jerry.

6-Rubio

Sorry SR - not right unless you've come across something I wasn't expecting.

5.Isn't ranunculus a plant ? I suppose he could have been Rudolf Nureyev's understudy !

10. Convince me. I won't give you Tom and Jerry as they were definitely showbiz. The one I'm looking for dates back to an event in 1811.

Correct penzance. Rubio it is.

Correct penzance. Rubio it is.

Ranunculus is known in English as Private Dancer i think, was erring on the cryptic side!

You are definitely right to think a bit cryptically on that one.

5-Salamander

10 Chang

Sorry, not salamander. 5. is a real person - but better known by a different name.

1.19thcentury comic character. (4,6)  Ally Sloper-looked amazingly like W C Fields.
2. Tower of shoes here. (10)
3. Ski resort. (4,9)  Mont Tremblant
4. Motorway services. (9)  Annandale
5. Famous dancer. (10)
6. American senator. (5) Rubio
7. Newspaper columnist. (5,6)  Peter Simple
8. Place in Ghana. (6)
9. Plant genus. (4)  Ilex
10. Half of a non-showbusiness duo. (5)

In 2 the shoes aren't ones that you or I would wear.

8]  Eremon

Very good hillside. I thought that would take some finding. Hard to imagine that the horse's name stems from the place name. Probably some other explanation known only to the owner.

Well done Alices. Chang being one half of the original Siamese twins.

Just these left :

2. Tower of shoes here. (10)
5. Famous dancer. (10)

10 Romeo.

Apologies all round.

2 has 11 letters not 10.

Is no 5 not salamader then, scrabbler?

Not salamander. I'm not sure how this fits the bill - but I'm willing to be convinced by a plausible explanation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsSH8hcTtiM

Still not salamander. I'm looking for the original name of a very famous person.

5 Austerlitz-Fred Astaire!

Given up with the shoes unless you've a clue!

Well done. Perseverance succeeds. Fred Astaire was originally Austerlitz.

The shoes are horseshoes. That might give it away.

5-Austerlitz

2 Scarrington
Thand gawd for that, too tricky!

Scarrington it is.

In the phrase of Samuel Johnson : worth seeing, but not worth going to see.  There is a good picture of the horseshoe pile on Wikipedia. You would think that there should be something similar in Newmarket, Lambourn or Malton.

Thanks to all who had a go.

without the horse shoe clue,
would anyone got that?

What is weird about that is the horse placed in 1871 and 1872 yet the tower wasn't started until 1945, unless there was an earlier one!

Suppose the place itself must have existed before the tower though!

I suppose so. Just shows you that even from 1945 there must have been plenty of horses still used on farms. The surrounding Vale of Belvoir hunting fraternity would have had horses aplenty.