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June 14, 2012 · by Joe McNally · in News

Thanks for visiting our site. We have five eBooks on sale on Amazon – more details here

On Amazon UK Warned Off can be found here – all profits from this book in 2012 are being donated to Kidney Research UK.

On Amazon.com, Warned Off is here. The overseas profits will also go to Kidney Research.

Hunted for UK readers is here. And for overseas readers is here.

Blood Ties for UK readers is here and for overseas readers is here

For Your Sins for UK readers is here, and for overseas readers, here

Bet Your Life for UK readers is here, and for overseas readers is here

If there’s sufficient demand, we’ll publish paperbacks too. If you read any of the previous print editions, thank you for staying with us. In these days of easy praise and overstatement, it can be hard to convey appreciation, but we are extremely grateful to our readers, old and new. You are always in our minds when we’re writing and we will never forget that our job is to entertain you and give you value for money.

Best wishes

Richard and Joe

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A little bit of background →

1. Richard failed all his GCSEs - too busy thinking about racing!

2. Joe went to priest's college at the age of 10 and ran away 9 months later under cover of darkness.

3. Richard is always modest but the trainer many would argue was the best in National Hunt history - the late Fred Winter - appointed him as stable jockey.

4. Richard recommended to Fred Winter that he take on a promising lad called John Francome. Weight being crucial for jockeys, Fred's first question to John when interviewing him was, "What's the lightest you've ever been?"
" Seven pounds three ounces," said JF in his west country burr. He got the job.

5. Joe is the second oldest of 15 children.

6. Richard blames himself for the defeat of Crisp in the 1973 Grand National: "I should never have had my stick in my right hand at The Elbow."

7. Joe was one of only four people at the funeral of Red Rum.

8. At 69, Richard is the oldest jockey ever to ride at Aintree - a charity race in April 2012

9. Joe created the Tote's most famous modern-day bet, scoop6.

10. Joe met his wife Margy at the winning post on the Grand National course in 1995. Margy says, "If Richard thought he made a mistake in 1973 on the run-in, it was nothing to mine!"