Which jockey from the famous 1967 National had been deprived of his pedals but still thinks he’d have won?
I thoroughly enjoyed speaking to as many of the jockeys who rode in the 1967 Grand National as I could find for this piece about Foinavon’s race. For those of you interested in the subject, I recommend David Owen’s definitive book and Owen was kind enough to put me in touch with a couple of the riders I would otherwise have missed.
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