The Grand National will be limited to 34 runners from next year as part of a series of changes announced in a bid to improve safety in the world’s most famous horse race.
The reduction, from the current limit of 40, is the first change to the race’s maximum field size in 40 years and comes following a Jockey Club review in the aftermath of this year’s edition, in which the Sandy Thompson-trained Hill Sixteen suffered a fatal fall at the first fence during a particularly chaotic first circuit.
