Grand National
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The Grand National is a National Hunt horse race held annually at Aintree Racecourse in Aintree, Merseyside, England, near Liverpool. First run in 1839 as the Grand Liverpool Steeplechase, it is a han
The Grand National in 2011
1890 engraving of horses jumping the famous Becher's Brook fence in the Grand National.
Ballabriggs, the winner of the 2011 Grand National.
Battleship is the only horse to win both the American Grand National and the English Grand National steeplechase races
Becher's Brook
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Becher's Brook is a fence jumped during the Grand National, a National Hunt horse race held annually at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool, England. It is jumped twice during the race, as the 6th and 2
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…course over which the race is run features much larger fences than those found on conventional National Hunt tracks. Many of these fences, particularly Becher's Brook, The Chair and the Canal Turn, have become famous in their own right and, combined with the distance of the event, create often described as "the…
Becher's Brook before the modifications were made to the fence