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The Grand National course is
left-handed, four and a half miles long, over two circuits of the Aintree
racecourse in Liverpool, has 30 steeplechase fences and 40 runners (the
maximum allowed). The race is run on a Saturday every April. The runners jump a total of 30 fences. All but two of the sixteen fences are jumped twice. The only fences that are jumped once are The Chair (fence 15) and the water jump (fence 16). The landmark fences on the
Grand National course are named. They are: It is not just the fearsome Grand National fences that have influenced the results, it is the seemingly endless 494-yard run-in from the final fence to the winning line that has turned Grand National results around since the first Grand National won by Lottery in 1839.
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