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Nick Townsend talks to Johnny Burke about his love of ALL racing

Crambo and Johnny Burke fall in at Cheltenham in March

You can’t fail to raise an eyebrow when a leading national hunt jockey reveals that, in his down time, he loves to view Formula One…yet, when asked if he’d ever have fancied swapping equine horse power for the petrol-fired version and the starting tape for the grid, insists: “I don’t know that I’d be brave enough.”
It’s extraordinary to hear this uttered by a man whose roster of injuries, particularly in his...

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