CELEBRITIES OF THE PAST 

 THIRTY YEARS 



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Just as in the teeth of all '' ten thousand 

 pounder" opposition the Derby is still the 

 Derby to the racing man, so is the great 

 event decided each March upon "Aintree's 

 bleak plain " the highest of all prizes to the 

 votary of steeplechasing. It matters not that 

 Manchester, in the north, puts forth such 

 subtle attractions as a shortened course and 

 a pile of added money, or that Sandown 

 and Kempton, in the south, strive to tempt 

 the best of our cross-country performers to 

 their charming courses — the National's the 

 National " for a' that," and in the steeple- 

 chasing world Liverpool always has been, 

 and we sincerely trust always will be, " a 



name to conjure with." 



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