I’d imagine the horse got a tremendous surge of adrenalin crossing the line
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I’m looking forward to his post-race tweets.
I expect that some of the horses that performed poorly but weren’t killed will be making apologetic Petr Cech-style tweets to their backers.
Not true. The 5th was trained in England.
Still some performance by the Oirish trainers, unreal.
ITV skipped Becher’s Brook on the review.
Richard Pitman would never, ever have done that on the BBC.
It would have been stated matter of factly that a horse or horses have died.
The memory of these martyrs at least deserves that.
Tremendous news from the lovely Francesca that all horses are back alive, with only Saint Are being “assessed”.
Let us all hope that early assessment remains positive in a way that it unfortunately didn’t for the Saints at St. Mary’s earlier today.
That’s in very poor taste. The defeated IRA were no friend of the horse, Aintree or the Grand National. Look what they did to poor Shergar and the seven horses they murdered in the Hyde Park and Regent Park bombings. Not to mention getting the 1997 Grand National postponed. The indomitable Sefton and fifteen years later the Liverpool racing public who turned out on that 1997 Monday weren’t going to be deterred by murdering scum.
The horses skipped it 2nd time around
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I know that, mate, I was watching the race.
ITV skipped it the first time around on the review, presumably because they thought horses had been killed due to the screens being erected afterwards.
Vile scum, there’'s a lovely tribute to their innocent victims in Hyde Park
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One of the things I really enjoyed about Grand National day on the BBC was the opening credits on Grand National Grandstand. I think I’m correct in saying it was the only Saturday in the calendar when we didn’t have the signature Grandstand opening credits. Instead it was the Champions music with the same imagery every year - Bob Champion winning on Aldaniti in 1981, Michael O’Hehir calling the pile up at the Foinavon fence in 1967, ESB winning in 1956 when Devon Loch fell, Red Rum riding out on Southport beach and Sir Peter O’Sullevan calling Red Rum home in 1977.
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You have a sad existence if that’s something you knew and enjoyed
We don’t all have that edgy North County Dublin sailing set/Pretend IRA/Roma ultra existence.
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Not many do mate
oh christ, what a headshot
The Olympics of Horsey Racing is here again. 
The greatest horse race of all. I’ll try and tune it for this. What time are they off?
17:15hrs
Liverpool is buzzing today
What a day for it
The World Cup, Olympics and Superbowl all rolled into one.
What’s the betting on number of horses to die this year?
Going against the grain here but it’s a race I don’t enjoy. You’re lucky if you get over the first not to mind stay the course
It’s one of only two horse races that I would typically watch in the year and I enjoy it immensely.