one story we are celebrating this week is that of dick francis, champion jockey week is that of dick , devon loch did a belly flop just behind me. this week, to mark this and reflect on what happened, i have been speaking to felix francis, the son of dick francis, who said the son of dick francis, who said the legacy was life changing for his father. the devon loch episode catapulted the name of dick francis from the back pages to the front pages. he said later in life he probably owed more to devon loch's collapse than if he had won. he was afraid his epitaph would be here lies the man who did not win the grand national. i was three at the time but it seems to me it was a miracle i made it to my fourth birthday because according to my mother i would scamper across the carpet and throw my hands out in front and my legs at the back and shout, i am front and my legs at the back and shout, iam being devon front and my legs at the back and shout, i am being devon loch, front and my legs at the back and shout, iam being devon loch, down front and my legs at the back and shout, i am being d

back to aintree, where a statue has this week been unveiled of formerjockey and author, the late dick francisnational on board the queen mother's horse devon loch until one of the mostjaw dropping moments ever in sport. mike bushell has been with dick's son this week to relive that dramatic day. going strongly, and he looks to the crowd as a royal windsor certainty. the 9056 grand national, jockey dik francis riding the queen's horse to victory. francis riding the queen's horse to victo . , ., , victory. devon loch is length in front, victory. devon loch is length in front. my _ victory. devon loch is length in front, my father _ victory. devon loch is length in front, my father must - victory. devon loch is length in front, my father must have - victory. devon loch is length in i front, my father must have been ecstatically happy that he was about to win _ ecstatically happy that he was about to win the _ ecstatically happy that he was about to win the grand national, the race he wants_ to win the grand national, the race he wants to — to win the grand national, the race he wants to win more

divorced, ellen day married the youngest brace brother, ethan and the man on the right there, dick francis is a descendant of ellen day who he remembered and from whom he inherited his love of gardening. so on the left is tina st. francis brace from the st. francis band of abunakees married to jim brace, like the age of rhonda and i, so the braces intermarried with abunakees probably for 200 years. this is a photo from the 1970s, a portrait of the brace family that is still in st. albans. jim who i just mentioned is the second from the left on the top, but you can see, well i don't know if you can see in the photo but range from blonde and blue eyed to quite dark. i just feel like this is the american family is how i think of this. but despite the fact that they are sons and daughters of the american revolution, when leo brace joined the american army in world war ii, he had to fight in a racially segregated unit. in 2008, 60 descendants of the brace family gathered from around new england for the unveiling of a historical marker, honoring their ancestor near, near the sight of the brace f

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