Why didnt they just bring in this whip rule for the National??

That would have been far too sensible.

Not in the BHA remit =  LOGIC.

There was more uproar about the overhead shots of screens around a horse anyway

It was the taupaulin that did it along with the winner not entering the winners enclosure through dehydration not whip use. F... knows what they will do should any horses die this year

Grand national should be banned anyway......

..has no place in the modern world.

And all the changes to the course havent made the slightest difference to the numbers of fatalities

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_equine_fatalities_in_the_Grand_National