Sam Waley-Cohen signed off his career in style by winning the 2022 Grand National on outsider Noble Yeats.
The 50-1 shot relished the jumping test and stayed on in determined fashion to defeat the favourite Any Second Now. After jumping 30 fences, both horses went head-to-head up the famous run-in, but it was the longshot who served up a shock result.
Owned by the jockey's father Robert Waley-Cohen, Noble Yeats was a first runner in the race for trainer Emmet Mullins. It was the winning rider's seventh triumph around the Grand National course – a terrific record for an amateur jockey.
