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It seems there were, almost two centuries ago, two Irishmen who, to settle a question of supremacy, raced their hunters over moor, fen, hedge and highway, "to the spire of St. Leger Church." This week more than twoscore horses, at a starter's signal, will charge as cavalry over a course of obstacles that might have been designed by the Devil himself. Half a million people will watch them. It is the Grand National Steeplechase, premier event of a great sport which the two Irishmen, all unwittingly, began. Church steeples long...
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