GRAND NATIONAL jockey Johnny Burke posed for an A&E selfie – after breaking his arm in the world’s most famous race.
Burke came down from Sam Brown at ‘The Chair’ jump during a chaotic running of the Aintree showpiece last Saturday.
Burke broke his arm after falling off Sam Brown in the Grand National
The Anthony Honeyball-trained 11-year-old was sent off 66-1 for the race won by 8-1 Corach Rambler.
He looked to be travelling OK in midfield when he came down at the 15th of 30 fences.
Fortunately the horse was not seriously hurt – but Burke was taken off to hospital for treatment.
Burke’s girlfriend Frankie Rowles posted a photo of the two of them in A&E on Saturday night.
She confirmed Burke had suffered a broken arm and some cuts to his head but is, luckily, on the mend.
Rowles wrote: “Thank you for all your lovely messages about J.
“A broken arm and a few scrapes to the face.
“Yes… I was a little over-dressed for a Saturday night in A&E.”
Burke, who won the 2022 Dawn Run on Love Envoi and has enjoyed a hugely successful season with Boothill, will now recover before returning to the racecourse.
Aintree Grand National Festival was overshadowed by the death of three horses during the three-day meeting.
One of those was the Sandy Thomson-trained Hill Sixteen in the National itself.
Thomson said he was ‘completely devastated’ at his horse’s passing.
He revealed he rushed over to the horse’s side after his fall at the first and said he was ‘so sorry’.
Thomson said: “I just had a few words with him. That I was so sorry for him and thanked him for everything he did for us.”
The trainer also shared a photo of jockey Ryan Mania stroking the horse before his passing on Twitter on Monday morning.
And he wrote: “Thank you so much to everyone for such a huge outpour of love and sympathy for us all having lost Hill Sixteen.
“We are all completely devastated and it will be felt on the yard for a long time.
“He was a wonderful gorgeous horse who was so loved and cared for by everyone.”
