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JOHN SHINES ON FOR LONG AFTER MIDNIGHT: Nick Townsend talks to irrepressible saddle legend John Francome

By any estimation, John Francombe boasts an extraordinary body of work: a seven-times champion national hunt jockey; for 27 years a broadcaster with Channel 4 Racing; and an author of a bookshelf of racing-based thrillers.

Indeed, that last accomplishment only ceased, he reflects wryly, because “after about 20 books you run out of ways to murder people.”
Today, at 72, this irrepressible individual is still immersed in Lambourn, the village in which he arrived as a 16-year-old and proceeded to display what could be described, given his second career, as a killer instinct in the saddle, claim...

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