Jockey rode 8-1 favourite Corach Rambler to glory at Aintree but the race will be remembered for all the drama before it
For anyone who sits uneasily on the fence when it comes to racing, the 175th National really did have pretty much everything: sorrow, suffering, glory and pain. But it was especially hard to ignore the suffering, in the grim knowledge that two more horses had died on National Hunt racing’s biggest day, including Hill Sixteen after an horrific fall on the first fence.
Police and officials search fence two for explosive devices after animal rights protesters stormed the course before the Grand National.There was joy too in the disarming attitude of Derek Fox, who had been a doubt for this race after injuring his shoulder. Not that you would have known it given the way he nursed Corach Rambler round before striking decisively for home. “He is everything you want from a National horse,” he explained afterwards. “He’s just brilliant.
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