near Liverpool
on Wednesday March 1st 1843 and attracted a field of sixteen runners.
Although recorded by the press at the time as the eighth running of the Grand Liverpool, which was renamed the Grand National in 1847, the first three runnings were poorly organised affairs and are today regarded as unofficial.
This year the race was run as a handicap
, with horses weighted according to their ability.
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to Splink: "Okay, even alternate versions of you are weird!"
"And they have the nerve to say I'm the weird one."
to the author-breaking the fourth wall: "We need a deus ex machina|deus ex machina, and you're deus!"
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