- Last year’s winner suffers fatal injury
- Race won for Willie Mullins by Captain Cody
Last year’s winner, Macdermott, was one of two fatalities in the Scottish Grand National at Ayr, casting a shadow over the triumph of his stablemate Captain Cody.
Sent off at 16-1 in his bid to repeat his win of 12 months ago, the Willie Mullins-trained Macdermott was once again ridden by Danny Mullins, but was pulled up sharply before the 10th fence. In an incident-packed race with eight finishers from 23 runners, Nigel Twiston‑Davies’s The Kniphand fell at the second-last and, like Macdermott, suffered a fatal injury.
