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hello, i m frankie mccamley. a number of people have been have been arrested at one of the most prestigious horse races in the world, the grand national. a number of protesters made their way onto the track at antrie their way onto the track at aintree which had delayed the race. as you can see from these images the protesters got right onto the course. animal rights activists had warned they would try to disrupt the world famous race. a large number of police had been deployed to the raceground and they went onto the course to remove the protesters. the start of the race was delayed for m minutes whilst the protesters were cleared from track. the race eventually went ahead and was won by corach rambler ridden by the jockey derek fox. our correspondent sharon barbour has been following the developments in aintree. she s been speaking to protesters to get their perspective on the afternoon s activity. people cut through the defences to get onto the track. you 500 million peop
you re watching bbc news, now it is time for sports day. hello and welcome to sportsday. i m olly foster. this is what is coming up. the start was delayed by protestors, but there was a stunning finish from corach rambler to win the grand national. haaland hits the net again, manchester city narrow arsenal s lead at the top. and manchester united hold off brighton to reach the women s fa cup final. also coming up on sportsday. it s been another golden day for great britain at the european gymnastics championships in turkey. obviously, the goal is always to win so, yeah, that was probably the best routine of my life. welcome along. well, let s start at aintree, where corach rambler the 8 1 favourite has won the grand national. the race was delayed by m minutes. has won the grand national. animal rights activists had threatened to disrupt the world famous steeplechase and a number of protestors managed to get onto the course. so far, 23 arrests have been made. patrick geare
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by the animal activists group animal rising to disrupt the national. they said they wanted to stop the race to protect the horses. a handful of arrests were made in the morning, but 15 minutes before the schedules started, we saw activists trying to get onto the course. police were on the scene quickly, but some protesters did get onto the track and attempted to attach themselves to fences. all that meant the start of the race had to be delayed. and it was quite a warm and sunny day here, so the horses had to go back to the pre paddock while the course was cleared. eventually, those protesters were taken away, and the race did start, 1a minutes late. we know there was one fatality in the race, 17 of the 39 finished. and it was a fairly chaotic race, a number of fallers early on. yeah, some suggestion the time the horses spent in the sun didn t do them any favours, but it was chaotic and