Aintree fences 'should be bigger'

[Win2Win Racing]

Trainer Malcolm Jefferson believes bigger fences at the Grand National could have saved his horse According to Pete.

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I said that months ago, it's a simple matter of physics. The higher the jump the slower you go over a fixed distance. This is proven by race times, but more importantly you get a lot more deaths/injuries over hurdles than you do over the bigger fences.