The man who trained the horse that suffered a fatal fall at Saturday's Grand National has blamed 'ignorant' protesters for his animal's death
told Sky News its actions at the Grand National"aimed to prevent exactly that from happening".
"Horse deaths and injuries are an unavoidable consequence of the way we use animals for sport, not dissimilar to the way we cause billions of animal deaths in our food system. "We'd welcome dialogue with Sandy Thomson or Jimmy Fyffe about how to move forwards together and really transform our relationship to horses and, indeed, to all animals and nature."
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