I'm Champion, Call Me Bob: My Story

In his own words Bob talks of his early life, his path to becoming a professional jump jockey and how it felt being at the top of his game only to have it come crashing down with a life-threatening diagnosis. The depths of despair going through the radical new cancer treatment he was offered and the heights of joy with that famous Grand National victory. This new biography also looks at the whirlwind adventure his life has been since that glorious spring day at Aintree and examines the tremendous fund raising efforts of the Bob Champion Cancer Trust.

Today Bob is the face of that Trust, the UK’s most successful small cancer fund that has been responsible for raising almost £15Million, money which has allowed research efforts that have all but eradicated testicular cancer death and furthered new research enquiries into prostate cancer.

For the first time Bob shares his thoughts on his life so far, the highs, the lows, injuries, illness and of course just what it felt like to win ‘the ultimate test of horse and rider.’

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I'm Champion, Call Me Bob: My Story

In his own words Bob talks of his early life, his path to becoming a professional jump jockey and how it felt being at the top of his game only to have it come crashing down with a life-threatening diagnosis. The depths of despair going through the radical new cancer treatment he was offered and the heights of joy with that famous Grand National victory. This new biography also looks at the whirlwind adventure his life has been since that glorious spring day at Aintree and examines the tremendous fund raising efforts of the Bob Champion Cancer Trust.

Today Bob is the face of that Trust, the UK’s most successful small cancer fund that has been responsible for raising almost £15Million, money which has allowed research efforts that have all but eradicated testicular cancer death and furthered new research enquiries into prostate cancer.

For the first time Bob shares his thoughts on his life so far, the highs, the lows, injuries, illness and of course just what it felt like to win ‘the ultimate test of horse and rider.’

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I'm Champion, Call Me Bob: My Story

I'm Champion, Call Me Bob: My Story

by Bob Champion
I'm Champion, Call Me Bob: My Story

I'm Champion, Call Me Bob: My Story

by Bob Champion

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In his own words Bob talks of his early life, his path to becoming a professional jump jockey and how it felt being at the top of his game only to have it come crashing down with a life-threatening diagnosis. The depths of despair going through the radical new cancer treatment he was offered and the heights of joy with that famous Grand National victory. This new biography also looks at the whirlwind adventure his life has been since that glorious spring day at Aintree and examines the tremendous fund raising efforts of the Bob Champion Cancer Trust.

Today Bob is the face of that Trust, the UK’s most successful small cancer fund that has been responsible for raising almost £15Million, money which has allowed research efforts that have all but eradicated testicular cancer death and furthered new research enquiries into prostate cancer.

For the first time Bob shares his thoughts on his life so far, the highs, the lows, injuries, illness and of course just what it felt like to win ‘the ultimate test of horse and rider.’


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780995594371
Publisher: Fcm Publishing
Publication date: 04/12/2018
Pages: 368
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.81(d)

Table of Contents

I’m Champion. 7

Dedication. 9

Acknowledgements. 11

Foreword. 15

The Almost Impossible Jump. 1

Under Starter’s Orders. 7

And They’re Off. 34

Photo1. 69

Photo2. 70

Photo3. 71

Photo4. 72

Against the Odds. 73

A Stayer’s Hurdle. 116

Photo5. 155

Photo6. 156

Photo7. 157

Photo8. 158

The 1981 Grand National. 159

A Show Pony. 175

The Odds-On Favourite. 192

Photo9. 219

Photo10. 220

Photo11. 221

Photo12. 222

Heavy Going. 223

The Final Furlong. 280

The Chair. 295

Annex. 1

John Francome. 1

Vincent O’Brien. 3

Jonjo O’Neill 5

Peter Scudamore. 7

Fred Winter. 9

Richard Dunwoody. 11

Don Cantillon. 13

Adrian Maguire. 14

AP McCoy. 17

Aidan O’Brien. 19

Ryan Moore. 21

Joe Mercer. 23

John Gosden. 25

Frankie Dettori 27

Lester Piggot 29

Henry Cecil 31

Steve Cauthen. 33

Index. 35

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