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Updated: May 9, 2025
When it is too bad for anything, they call it 'Grand. Well, as we said before, but for the Granddiddle Junction, shire would never have had a 'Grand Aristocratic Steeple-Chase. A few friends or farmers might have got up a quiet thing among themselves, but it would never have seen a regular trade transaction, with its swell mob, sham captains, and all the paraphernalia of odd laying, 'secret tips, and market rigging.
Nor was the assemblage confined to the people of the country, for the Granddiddle Junction, by its connection with the great network of railways, enabled all patrons of this truly national sport to sweep down upon the spot like flocks of wolves; and train after train disgorged a generous mixture of sharps and flats, commingling with coatless, baggy-breeched vagabonds, the emissaries most likely of the Peeping Toms and Infallible Joes, if not the worthies themselves.
Whatever benefit the Granddiddle Junction conferred upon the country at large, it had a very prejudicial effect upon the Old Duke of Cumberland Hotel and Posting House, which it left, high and dry, at an angle sufficiently near to be tantalized by the whirr and the whistle of the trains, and yet too far off to be benefited by the parties they brought.
But for the Granddiddle Junction, shire never would have had a steeple-chase an 'Aristocratic, at least for it is observable that the more snobbish a thing is, the more certain they are to call it aristocratic.
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