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With zero arrests this year, the Crabbie’s Grand National is the best behaved major racing event in the country.

Despite crowds of over 150,000 Merseyside Police made no arrests at all over all three days of the Aintree festival.

The one incident that ended up on the police’s books was after a video went viral of a 63-year-old man being knocked over in the street.

Formby man Terry Carroll, 34, who knocked him over handed himself into police and was questioned about the incident. But he was not arrested and the older man has not made a complaint against him.

In Pictures: Crowds flock to the Grand National festival

But as for the contenders for the crown of top racing event - at the last Royal Ascot there were 34 arrests in total over the five-day event with crowds of up to 65,000 per day.

While there were four arrests at Cheltenham from crowds of 248,521.

Nick Smith, spokesman for Royal Ascot, said: “We see fewer and fewer arrests each year. We have very strict dress code and we find people tend to behave according to the environment they are in.

“You’re bound to have some anti-social behaviour but these were for very very minor offences. With roughly 300,000 people attending Ascot we are very happy with these figures.”

At Cheltenham Gloucestershire Police said offences included alcohol related disorder, wallet and handbag theft and there a small number of cases of counterfeit money circulating.

A spokeswoman for Cheltenham Racecourse said: “We have almost a quarter-of-a-million people over the four days which is a huge amount of people. Many of them go into Cheltenham town afterwards and stay. Of course, with that many people there will be incidents but crowds behaved very well at Cheltenham.”

Merseyside Police praised racegoers for making the Aintree festival such a safe event. Superintendent Dave Charnock said: “We saw large number of visitors at the Festival who were able to enjoy themselves safely and savour the unique atmosphere of this very special occasion.

“The Grand National has again demonstrated what a great place Merseyside is to host events which are viewed around the world.

“It also has a reputation for being an extremely safe and low crime event, and this has once again proved to be the case with our officers having to make no arrests across the entire festival.

“I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone, including those who worked during the event, for helping to make this a such a safe and enjoyable occasion.”

The Grand National 2015 broke new attendance records with over 72,000 people on Grand National Day and 45,078 on Ladies Day.

Check out all our Grand National coverage and pictures here