#BettingPeople Interview GRAHAM THORNER former champion jump jockey 3/4
Simon Nott meets Graham Thorner who was champion jump jockey in the 1970/71 season with 74 winners and won the Grand National in 1972 on the gambled on Well To Do. In this series of four interviews he tells Simon Nott his fascinating story.
Part 3: Graham talks about jockeys having punters back in the day and how it worked, starting out as a trainer with Sheikh Mohammed as a patron, getting more satisfaction from training than riding, why he thinks it didn’t take off, and being the victim of a freak accident at Newbury where ‘The Lads’ indirectly came to his aid getting compensation.