An owner whose horse died from a fall in the Randox Grand National hit out at protestors for delaying the start of the big race.
Jimmy Fyffe, who owned the Sandy Thomson-trained Hill Sixteen, said the actions of animal rights activists which resulted in the race starting 14 minutes late “didn’t help” the horses ahead of the race.
Hill Sixteen died when he was fatally injured when coming down at the first fence in the £1million race for which he was an 80-1 outsider. An hour after the race Fyffe, who is also a director of Dundee United football club, was in the Aintree winners enclosure when another horse he owned, Florida Dreams, won the last race of the meeting, a Grade 2 bumper.
