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GRAND NATIONAL GAINING English Cross-Country Race to Be Made the Richest of Its Kind in the World. It is expected that Ike Liverpool Grand National Steeple ekaae af 19SI "ill be the atoat vnlnaide eroaa-coaatry event la Ike world. It is the English intention to make it sack. The Crand National added bmmm? has area lacreaaed to .si..ikxi and its tees rained. BeaM seventy-five rati lea and tweatj fire start, is are ■ spected. This will fiive tke win-ie i s:i."..itiMi. So far the French Oraad Bteeplechaae lie P. nis. which In June. 1014, u.is woriii s:tl.Miu to James Deaaeaay, I be owaer af Lord l.oris. ns averaaed the ricbeal jaatplaa race. The Sraad Natioaal lias been run annually Riaee is:t! . in P.tir,. when Ally Blotter won. tke ralae to the owner. Lady !S#4*on, was . 17..".7." . it was also worth .si7.."i7." in i he previous year, arben Banloch was sii.-.i ssi ni. In I.ilh. Poetklyaa year, ii araa worth S17.I"." and last year, Ti". tw ns year, is_l.s.m Tke ■Teraae Oraad National ealriea in Ike laai four yearn have heea sixty aad Ike raaaera tweaty- one. The bfatgesi fiel.u eret aeea in the Aiatree, Bteeplecbaae were in 1850, wbea Ab.i el Kadir wn f i the first time, and in IBM, when James Heii- aeaay s.-.it-.d with Lattear ill . each af the Iwa beating thirty -on, oppoaeata. The 1"l1 National is expected to be iiioi-i- thaa usually "iiitcrnaiional" in its Held. One or iwo Belgian aoraea are proliabie caadidatea, and a half ilo/i-n Fr.nch curies are bciiij; point d for Hera. -o. Marshal F i -h. the Preach leader la tke Great War. has already accepted Lord Derbys invitation to be his ynest durinu the Grand National neotlnjc at Liv.-i 1 and la aee the race run.
