Gordon Elliott trained horse Galvin has suffered a nasty cut after colliding with one of the ladders thrown by Grand National protesters.
Animal rights activists had been using the ladders in an attempt to gain entry to Aintree and prevent the World's most famous steeplechase from taking place.
After a short delay, the race began. Galvin, whose jockey was Davy Russell, was one of the numerous horses to fall at the first. As the horse made its way back to the paddock, it stumbled over a ladder that had been thrown over a fence and suffered the injury.
