Hill Sixteen - trained by Sandy Thomson - suffered a fatal fall at the first fence, but the Scottish handler blames animal rights activists for causing the 'hyper' horse to die.
The man who trained the horse that suffered a fatal fall at Saturday's Grand National has blamed"ignorant" protesters for his animal's death.
"Unfortunately, it's a statistic we're all trying to avoid," Thomson said."He's jumped round here twice and never had a bother. I don't know when he last fell. "Horse deaths and injuries are an unavoidable consequence of the way we use animals for sport, not dissimilar to the way we cause billions of animal deaths in our food system.Grand National protester arrested
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