The Grand National Steeplechase
March, 1962
The Grand National Steeplechase--an event as emphatically British as Trooping the Colours and The Lord Mayor's Show -- is at once the longest, the most dangerous and the most famous race of its kind in the world. Run at Aintree, a tiny hamlet five miles outside the industrial sprawl of Liverpool, the Grand National poses a formidable equine and human challenge: 4-1/2 miles of obstacle-studded turf, requiring endurance in the horses, courage and skill in the good men up. Since its inception in 18...
