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Francis Hangs Up Tack TackOne One of Englands more prominent steeplechase riders decided to foresake the saddle last year He is Dick Francis who was steeplechase jockey to Englands Queen Mother Francis had been out of the saddle for nearly a month when in early February he announced his decision He had been kicked by a horse and had broken his wrist in a fall the previous month It was Francis who was up on Devon Loch in the 1956 Grand National when the hoise looking a certain winner suddenly went down only 50 yards from the finish
