Flags at Aintree, the venue for the Martell Grand National on Saturday, are flying at half-mast following the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.
And racecourse chief Charles Barnett paid his own tribute to the ‘First Lady of The Turf’, who came agonisingly close to landing the Grand National with Devon Loch in 1956.
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