HORSE RACING:THE BRITISH Horseracing Authority's review of the 2012 Grand National has found the circumstances that led to the deaths of Synchronised and According To Pete could have been neither "foreseen nor prevented".
Synchronised was given a full veterinary examination before lining up, and had a heartbeat “barely above a normal resting rate”. But having fallen at Becher’s Brook he ran riderless until falling again at the 11th fence, where it appeared he fractured his right-hind tibia and fibula. According To Pete was brought down by a faller at Becher’s but was jumped into by another horse as he got up. The authority said it was unclear which incident led to the fracture of his left-fore humerus. – (PA)
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