I think the problem of how to handle it is one I would rather not have as you are highly unlikely to handle it in a way that is satisfactory - and however you handle it the anti race lobby will jump on it as they have done in this case (not suggesting you guys commenting here are anti the race, but certainly some of the quoted
people on the news last night were)
It was more low key this time than before. I'm no sympathiser for the BBC but I think it's extremely difficult to get right.

I remember being sat there watching the Senna crash - I was crying as I knew he'd passed away, but you could see that the organisers didn't really know what to do.

Sport is riddled with fatalities, whether humans on their own, or such as horse racing. True sports challenge in such a way that it is inevitable from time to time.

I actually think the Grand National is a super event, but I also think that in an effort to make it safer, they have made it more dangerous. Speed is what kills and most of the fastest times have occurred during the modern era when the fences have been modified to be less dangerous to man and beast.