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BATTLING JOE’S BIGGEST FIGHT: Joe Fanning tells us how his cancer battle put the highs and lows of racing in perspective

Joe Fanning reflects on his prostate cancer diagnosis and recovery, and how his battle has put his remarkable racing career into perspective.

Normally, there is a simple explanation for a jockey’s’ long-term disappearance from active duty: to allow broken bones to repair, from which Joe Fanning is not short of experience.

Indeed, as initially a jump jockey, his luckiest break might well have been when fracturing two vertebrae in a fall at Newcastle, prompting him to switch his attentions to the Flat and enjoy a mutually beneficial, career-long association with racing’s ‘winning most’ trainer Mark Johnston, and now his son Mark, and be heading for 3,000 winners.
That was until November last year. And this was different. It was rat...

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