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Cockburn’s dressage days were numbered, though, as at age' 16 he took up race riding instead.
Crosby Cockburn’s younger sister, Mercy, had married top National Hunt trainer Fred Rimell, and together the pair accounted for most of the top trophies in English jump racing. Grand National winners Nicolas Silver, FSB, Rag Trade (the horse that won the National the year that the Queen’s horse and rider-novelist Dick Francis look a mysterious leap in the stretch and fell while leading) and Gay Trip make for instant national recognition of the Rimell stable name.”
“Fred used to.say that he trained all of the horses but that Mercy was a walking form book computer,” Cockburn reminisced. “She could tell you any horse’s form in the yard, and they usually had about 60 or so in training. She could tell you anything about any of their horses, and anything about any horse they were likely to run against on the course.”
At the age of 18, Cockburn said that he “left school and went to work for Fred. lie told me right away, though, that I’d never make a jockey. Not that he ever gave me a chance.” Famous last words ...
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