Grand National jockey taken to hospital after scary Broadway Boy fall at Aintree

Tom Bellamy had to be been taken to Aintree University Hospital for further assessment after his fall whilst riding Broadway Boy in the Grand National. The horse had been leading until its fall five fences from the finish.

All other jockeys returned to weighing room but Bellamy will have to be assessed whilst Broadway Boy required attention from the vets at the racecourse as he is assessed and it has been confirmed that the horse has walked onto the horse ambulance and will return to the stables for further assessment.

Celebre D’Allen - another horse who fell - has also walked onto the horse ambulance and too will go back to the stables for further assessment.

Broadway Boy had led for much of the race and was looking poised for victory going into the final stages, but at the 25th fence he fell as Bellamy was unseated. The horse fell awkwardly as he tumbled forwards. In a horrific landing, he fell upright on his front legs before his head appeared to sink into the ground. Bellamy came flying off the horse but appeared to land on his knees.

An update from , before they went off air at 5pm, read: "All horses back in the stables, Celebre D'Allen and Broadway Boy were assessed on course and walked onto the horse ambulance."

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The race was eventually won by Nick Rockett for trainer , as he watched son Patrick Mullins claimed victory, which left his father in tears afterwards and his post-race interview with ITV had to be cut short.

Patrick told ITV: “I had too good a start and was having to take him back all the way. I was wondering at Canal Turn had I lost too much ground, but he just jumped fantastic. Then I was there too soon and it is a long way from the back of the last with Paul Townend [on I Am Maximus] on my outside.

“It’s everything I’ve dreamed of since I was a kid, I know it’s a cliche but when I was five or six years old, reading books about the National and watching black and white videos of Red Rum. To put my name there is very special.”

Nina Copleston-Hawkens, Animal Aid Campaign Manager said: "Animal Aid are disgusted and appalled that Broadway Boy suffered a horrific fall in the Grand National Race, and that the racing industry - rather than give the public an update on his wellbeing - had the gall to spout empty rhetoric about the ‘welfare’ of race horses.

"The lack of information provided about the welfare of these horses is despicable and demonstrates the sheer lack of care the industry has towards these horses. This is ‘welfare-washing’, at its most insidious."