Can't find the history of the naming of this jump anywhere....
Two answers:
Greywolf
2013-03-15 05:35:19 UTC
It was invented at the famous Aintree racecourse. Aintree is a suburb of Liverpool.
SIR ROY. .K.G
2013-03-18 10:00:41 UTC
There are several fences on the course the famous ones being ,The Chair ,which is the tallest and the broadest ,Velentine's Brook ,named after the horse Valentine which jumped that fence Backwards in the mid 1800s ! ,Bechers Brook named after Captain Becher who was unseated at that fence and was dumped into the water ,his comment was "The water had a disgusting taste and would taste better with whisky in it "there are two other water jumps
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