text: Ruby Walsh is renowned as one of the greatest jockeys of all time but he also showed what a fine horseman he is on the second circuit of the Grand National. Walsh, a two-time winner of the National, acted as flag man to warn the field to go wide at the Canal Turn as vets tended to the stricken Balthazar King. Thankfully, Phillip Hobbs’s gelding was able to walk away from his fall, as was Walsh’s mount Ballycasey. Ruby Walsh (right) warned riders that Balthazar King was receiving treatment . Balthazar King receives treatment as riders gallop past . Balthazar King received treatment from a vet on the track for at least an hour before being taken to an equine hospital. The Guardian reported that Balthazar King had likely suffered broken ribs. Balthazar King’s fall on the first circuit led to Walsh and Ballycasey being brought down  but, afterwards, Walsh was typically phlegmatic. ‘I had nowhere to go,’ he said. ‘But that is the National.’
target: Balthazar King and Ballycasey fell on first circuit at Aintree on Saturday .
  Balthazar King needed veterinary treatment on the course after the fall .
  Ruby Walsh acted as flag man to warn riders to avoid the horse .