Catapulted over the head of his mount and into a stream 169 years ago in the Grand Liverpool Steeplechase, Captain Martin Becher is reputed to have ventured that until then he hadn't realised how "dreadful water tastes without whisky in it".
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The first running of the Grand National: February 26, 1839
Catapulted over the head of his mount and into a stream 169 years ago in the Grand Liverpool Steeplechase, Captain Martin Becher is reputed to have ventured that until then he hadn't realised how "dreadful water tastes without whisky in it".
