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Sandy Thomson adamant protests contributed to fatal fall of Hill Sixteen -C) 'People can turn round and say that's a load of rubbish, but it's not a load of rubbish'. U- Sunday 16 April News O 0 PM
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Sandy Thomson has reiterated his stance against animal rights activists who disrupted the 175th running of the Grand National on Saturday, and urged the authorities to take "a much firmer stance". Hill Sixteen, trained by the Berwickshire handler, suffered a fatal injury after falling at the first fence in a race that was delayed by almost 15 minutes after protestors got on to the Aintree course and attempted to secure themselves to railings and fences. The 10-year-old had never fallen in his 26-race career and Thomson felt the delays and the rushed preparation caused by the protestors were a major reason for the race's total of three fallers, along with five unseated jockeys, over the first two fences. "I read somewhere that it has been nine years since the fences have been modified and there had been an average of two fallers at the first two fences in those nine years, and yesterday there were eight," said Thomson. "I think horses got very wound up and, oddly, not having a parade didn't help the situation. The jockeys get on the horse and then they have got to parade before going on to the course, to settle them down.
"It is nobody's fault, everyone was desperate to get the race off and the jockeys were just told to line up and then told not to line up."
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