Lucinda Russell’s Giovinco took a nasty fall when challenging in the latter stages of the Mildmay Novices’ Chase. The seven-year-old fell when making ground on the home straight, requiring treatment on the track.
Giovinco was widely tipped as a great each-way chance for the opener of Ladies Day at the Grand National Festival.
Screens were immediately placed around the gelding as he received treatment from the on-course vets, with the immense crowd at Aintree left crossing their fingers in the hope that the hugely-popular horse would recover.
A trailer filled with water then was taken over to the incident before a horse ambulance arrived and took the gelding away, heading in the direction of the Grand National course.
