The Willie Mullns-trained Dark Raven has died after taking a heavy fall at Aintree on Grand National day.
The winning novice hurdler was contesting the third race on the card, the Turners Mersey Novices’ Hurdle, when he came down at the seventh flight, sending jockey Paul Townend tumbling to the ground, in the race won by Irish Point.
The six-year-old became the second horse to lose his life during the three day fixture, chaser Envoye Special having suffered a fatal injury in the Randox Foxhunters’ Open Hunters’ Chase on Thursday on the Grand National course.
