When Derek Fox steered One For Arthur to victory in the 2017 Grand National, it seemed like a classic case of a relatively unknown sportsman having his fifteen minutes of fame.
No offence to a wonderful jockey but outside the tightly-knit world of horse racing, Fox was hardly a household name. Well, now, the 30-year-old from County Sligo can enjoy another fifteen minutes … and, hopefully, much, much longer.
Because on a dramatic, sunlit, interrupted evening at Aintree, Fox coolly rode himself into the sporting history books. And as is so often - in fact, always - the case with National Hunt jockeys, Fox’s tale is one of incredible mental and physical resilience.
