Gold Dancer jockey explains how fatal injury occurred while winning race at Aintree

Jockey Paul Townend had to attend a stewards inquiry into his riding of Gold Dancer, who had to be euthanised after the William Hill Mildmay Novices’ Chase on welfare grounds


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