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Champion trainer Gordon Elliott apologises for photo of him sitting atop dead horse – Wide World of Sports
His message ‘to anyone offended by this image’
Gordon Elliott, a three-time British Grand National-winning trainer, has apologised after being pictured sitting on a dead horse.
The undated photo was shared across Twitter on Saturday, but Elliott only confirmed its authenticity a day later.
“I was standing over the horse waiting to help with the removal of the body, in the course of which, to my memory I received a call and, without thinking, I sat down to take it,” the Irishman said in a statement. “Hearing a shout from one of my team, I gestured…
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