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‘DO NOT GEt ME STARTED!’

Rolf Johnson leaps into the jumps riddle of the false starts that seem never-ending

Confusion at the start of the 2007 Grand National

A one-time run of the mill jockey strode into the weighing room on his first day in his next job and announced, “In future you call me sir!” He was the new starter.
Poachers turned gamekeepers – converts are the staunchest zealots. Know any gamekeepers who turned into famous poachers? Former jockeys swap saddles for roles as starters, stewards’ secretaries, course inspectors, judges, all the officials they’d once &...

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