Letter: Horse sense
The four key changes to the course - which amount to the lowering of the drop on two of the jumps, reducing the height of one obstacle and increasing the height of the orange-coloured take-off board - fall depressingly short of any genuine attempt to address the carnage of the Grand National race.
Despite much heralded improvements over the years, Animal Aid's new analysis of the history of the race reveals that, in recent years, the risk of a horse dying in the race has increased rather than diminished.
The Grand National remains an un-reformable, anachronistic and immoral spectacle that should never be run again.
Fiona Pereira
Animal Aid
Bradford Street
Tonbridge, Kent