A third horse has died during this year's Grand National. Hill Sixteen reportedly suffered a broken neck at the first fence in the Grand National and was put down.
Out of 39 runners, 17 horses finished the race. Corach Rambler was winner of the Randox Grand National for trainer Lucinda Russell and jockey Derek Fox.
Campaign group Animal Aid's horse racing consultant Dene Stansall said: “Jump racing must be banned to prevent the brutal horrors seen today at Aintree and this week, from happening again. Innocent race horses’ lives taken from them in the name of entertainment and gambling.
"Aintree, the worst of all racecourses, is a disgrace and the Jockey Club and British racing should hang their heads in utter shame at what we have seen over the past three days.”
Animal Aid said two other horses were taken away in horse ambulances with life-threatening injuries. Dark Raven was killed earlier in the afternoon and the fate of another faller, Castle Robin, in an earlier race, remained unknown.
Envoye Special died on Thursday on the first day of the meeting.
