A SLAP AT A STONE ENCLOSURE — 5 TO 4 ON WHITE 



CHAPTER III 



LIVERPOOL 



THE growth of steeplechasing in the early and middle 

 thirties has been referred to on another page, and 

 one of the places to take up with the popular craze was 

 Liverpool. Flat races had for some time taken place 

 on the Aintree course, of which Mr. W. Lynn, proprietor 

 of the Waterloo Hotel, was owner or lessee. He 

 appears to have been an astute man of business, and 

 under his management the Liverpool races grew into 

 high favour with owners of horses and the general public, 

 while they also put into the pockets of the worthy 

 Mr. Lynn a comfortable annual sum. 



The proprietor of the course, thinking that he could 

 not do wrong in following the prevailing taste, adver- 

 tised that a grand steeplechase would take place at 

 Aintree on Monday the 29th of February 1836. Some 

 little difficulty was experienced in selecting a proper 

 course, but a line was eventually chosen. 



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