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John Francome retitred from horse racing in 1985 after being champion jockey for an impressive seven years, and broke win records in 1984 with a career total of 1138 National Hunt winners, ( a record onbly broken by Tony McCoy 25 years on) including winning the Cheltenham Gold Cup in 1978.
He somehow never won the Grand National despite many bites at the cherry and was dubbed the best ever jockey not to win the Aintree showpiece once he retired in 1985.
Post-racing Francome became a regular TV pundit on Channel 4 and was awarded an MBE in 1986 for his services to racing.
equent to his career as a jockey, he bacame a very succesful author ( of horase racing based thrillers)
