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Stefano Cherchi sustained a head injury and internal bleeding following a fall while riding in Australia - PA/Simon Marper

23-year-old, who rode over 100 winners as an apprentice in Britain, suffered a serious head injury from a fall in March

The veteran jockey booted home six winners at the famous Santa Anita track.

Marcus Armytage · 7 min read In this article: Richard Pitman

It is quite an achievement for a horse to win at both the Cheltenham Festival and Aintree's three-day Grand National meeting and two horses are in with a chance of that in Liverpool on Thursday.

Marcus Armytage · 9 min read In this article: Rachael Blackmore

Marcus Armytage There are many unknowns about Saturday's Randox Grand National but the one certainty is that Mr Frisk's record time of 8 minutes 47.8 seconds, set in 1990, will not be broken.

Gina Andrews can make racing history and become the first female amateur jockey to win the Randox Grand National when she teams up with Latenightpass, the horse bred by her mother-in-law Pippa Ellis and a first runner as a professional trainer for her husband Tom Ellis, at Aintree on Saturday.

In Victorian times, loose and, perhaps injured, horses careering through the streets of London would have been a daily occurrence. Carriages frequently crashed at Hyde Park Corner.

Shishkin, one of the best staying chasers in the country, has been put down after fracturing a hindleg in an accident in his box on Sunday afternoon.