After a string of horse deaths over the last ten years, this week's Grand National will now be run over new plastic fences in the hope of making the course less dangerous. Last year joint ...

It is a good all-purpose horse fence and is commonly used for both ... This comprises lightweight but strong and durable composite plastic posts plus a thin flexible polythene rail with ...

Image caption, One of the Aintree fences fitted with plastic birch in the middle Both ... more forgiving," Tulloch told BBC Sport. "If the horse hits something solid at racing speed it can ...

THIS is the dramatic moment a horse caused carnage by sending his jockey crashing through a plastic fence at Uttoxeter. Bryden Boy, a 40-1 shot ridden by Lorcan Murtagh, sent the rider careering ...