• Steeplechase was held at Gatwick Racecourse. The Gatwick races from 1916 to 1918 are typically omitted from the true Grand National records. The 1917...
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  • Aintree Racecourse was taken over by the War Office. However, a substitute race known as the War Steeplechase was held at Gatwick Racecourse. The Gatwick...
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  • running was titled the Racecourse Association Steeplechase and for the next two years it was known as the War National. a The 1843 winner Vanguard was trained...
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    Man o' War (March 29, 1917 – November 1, 1947) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who is widely regarded as one of the greatest racehorses of all...
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  • Harold Fowler (RAF officer) (category United States Army Air Service pilots of World War I)
    aviator, banker, big game hunter and steeplechase jockey. He served during the first part of the First World War with the British army but later transferred...
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    called the Racecourse Association Steeplechase, and in 1917 and 1918 the race was called the War National Steeplechase. The races at Gatwick are not always...
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    be replaced with a "hot rod" amusement ride. The steeplechase roller coaster, created by Steeplechase Park operator George C. Tilyou in 1897, consisted...
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    Expeditionary Force (AEF) on the Western Front in World War I, 1917–18. Pershing was immensely popular after World War I, and as a result a large number of organizations...
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    original, very large, iconic parks built on Coney Island; the others were Steeplechase Park (1897, by George C. Tilyou) and Dreamland (1904, by William H. Reynolds)...
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    "Operation Steeplechase," a police and army joint anti–Naxalite undertaking, was launched in July–August 1971. By the end of "Operation Steeplechase" over...
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