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Grand National
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Grand National
n
(Individual Sports & Recreations / Horse Racing) the. an annual steeplechase run at Aintree, Liverpool, since 1839
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Noun1.Grand National - an annual steeplechase run in Liverpool, England
steeplechase - a horse race over an obstructed course


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It emerged Horse Racing Ireland picked up the tab for him for four trips to Cheltenham, three to the Aintree Grand National and two trips to the Melbourne Cup in Australia.
IN reply to Mrs Foulds (Letters, Wed April 1) may I remind her that the Aintree Grand National meeting is in fact about horse racing, over the toughest fences in the world, and has been for hundreds of years without any other entertainment being necessary.
The first official Grand National, ran as the Liverpool & National Handicap Steeplechase, was raced in 1839 and ironically won by a horse by the name of Lottery Little did that horse or its connections know what a precedent they had set and how synonymous that the name Lottery would become with the Aintree Grand National The first official Grand National, ran as the Liverpool & National Handicap Steeplechase, was raced in 1839 and ironically won by a horse by the name of Lottery.
 
 
 
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