Word: brookes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...starters cleared the first jump, the second, the third. Then they began to tumble. At hair-raising Becher's Brook, Royal Danieli took the lead, kept it round the right-angle Canal Turn, over Valentine's Brook, down the backstretch, past the stands the first time around. At Becher's Brook, on the second circuit, he was still in front, with MacMoffat and James Neill's 50-to-1 shot Gold Arrow close behind. It looked as if the old Aintree jinx on favorites was not working...
Galen L. Stone of Milton Academy and Brookline was second in the competition, and Edward M. Tuckerman of Brook School and Boston was third. All three men will compete for varsity manager next year...