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del said of the purchase. “I bought it because the Gold Cup committee did not have enough money to buy the land themselves."
The 500-acre tract of land Mr. Arundel bought was not known as Great Meadow when it was purchased, but instead was referred to as “that big old crayfish field” because of its poor drainage.
Unconcerned by the state of the land he had bought, Mr. Arundel named it Great Meadow with the admonition that “while we seek to create a place with the mystique of Aintree (the site of the world’s most famous steeplechase, the Grand National in England), we shall first have to just earn the adjective ‘Great’ here on this soggy weed patch. ”
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