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Liverpool Grand Steeplechase - This, in 1839, was the fourth Grand Steeplechase on the Aintree Course, but it is considered the first Grand National. They ran tiwce round a two-mile circuit, jumping 29 obstacles. Part of the course was plough. There were two brooks, each taken twice. The favourite was The Nun, Allen McDonough (stripes), the winner Lottery, Jem Mason (white blaze, behind him), and the second Seventy Four, Tom Oliver (extrme left, jumping). Captain Becher on Conrad had already fallen into the other brook for the second time. The History of Horse Racing by Roger Longrigg, page 159.
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Liverpool Grand Steeplechase - This, in 1839, was the fourth Grand Steeplechase on the Aintree Course, but it is considered the first Grand National. They ran tiwce round a two-mile circuit, jumping 29 obstacles. Part of the course was plough. There were two brooks, each taken twice. The favourite was The Nun, Allen McDonough (stripes), the winner Lottery, Jem Mason (white blaze, behind him), and the second Seventy Four, Tom Oliver (extrme left, jumping). Captain Becher on Conrad had already fallen into the other brook for the second time. The History of Horse Racing by Roger Longrigg, page 159.
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