Dan McDonald

Addington Boy, yeah.

I mean, look, that's a fair question.

Your credentials are good there.

Yeah, no, I still enjoy the Grand National.

Yeah, well, I think it's definitely not the race it was, but you obviously have to be conscious of how you phrase that.

Like, I think they obviously had to make some changes to it.

You're talking about safety.

Safety, but it's been a dramatic overreaction, partly because just racing has lost its confidence and the Grand National has become the focal point for that.

Like, the modern changes, and there's been changes at various times, like 2012...

It was a really difficult year where Synchronized, there was two horses, but in particular Synchronized, who was the Gold Cup winner, who before the race was quite distressed.

And you could see Synchronized was quite distressed, just got looser.

So a lot of people were just watching Synchronized for minutes before the race as they were sort of delayed the start a little bit.

And then Synchronized ends up being killed in the race.

Now, he injured himself falling loose after...

after falling.

Unfortunately, that's something that could have happened anywhere, but it did happen in Grand National Day when he was distressed that day.

So I understand the backlash to that.

According to Pete, the other horse was brought down at beaches, so they changed it.

Now, there was no fatalities in the Grand National for six years after that.

2013 to 2019, they...