Sam Waley-Cohen: Grand National-winning jockey pays tribute to brother after 'fantasy' win
Sam Waley-Cohen celebrated his victory at Aintree with a number of generations of the Waley-Cohen family.
Now he is the first amateur rider to have won both the Gold Cup and National, and he completed the double on a horse aged seven - the youngest winner since Bogskar 82 years earlier. Discorama suffered an untreatable pelvic injury when running on the flat between fences, while Eclair Surf sustained a head injury.
"He used to ride his rocking horse and pretend he was riding Auntie Dot - that's how far back it goes," said his father Robert, a former chairman of Cheltenham Racecourse.
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