This is from 2002, before I returned to the sport after some years absence, so I wasn't aware of this until stumbling across it just now.
Absolutely – brings a tear to the eye, there’ll never be another one like him, get a minor Royal to pin a medal for bravery on his lapel, erect a statue, etc., etc., etc… Of course though such a manoeuvre by a NH jockey is now against the Rules of Racing and if carried out would result in the offender being banned for several months and possibly even in the old courts and then the ‘big house’. But what do we think, troops, is this a step in the right direction or a regressive one??? As I believe they say at voting time, ‘You decide’. Surely though, the most famous / infamous (delete as appropriate), and I’m sure even Sparky Arky would agree, was by the Ruby boy when he got back on Kauto Star at Exeter back in ’05.
I don't know when the no re-mounting rule came in, but surely races like this, although this one is extreme, would have been instrumental in bringing the rule about. On balance I see it as a good thing. Unlike the many good things I have lost dough on
