Which jockey rode 'Devon Loch' in the 1956 Grand National?
Devon Loch take a Devon Loch-style collapse for Leicester to miss out on a place in the top four." Devon Loch Devon Loch (1946 – 1963) was a racehorse, which fell on the final straight while leading the 1956 Grand National. Owned by Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and ridden by Dick Francis, Devon Loch had won two races already that season and finished third in the National Hunt Handicap Chase at Cheltenham. His progress was helped when the favourite, Must, and a previous winner, Early Mist, fell early on. He went to the front of the race with three jumps remaining,
Devon Loch just before the winning post in the 1956 Grand National. In an article in "The Times" on 4 August 2012, Rick Broadbent wrote about the final day of the 2012 Olympics heptathlon competition: "Jessica Ennis is almost there. It would take a Devon Loch-style collapse to deny her the gold medal now." Referencing Leicester City F.C.'s position atop the Premier League table into the second half of the season, on January 23, 2016 Stuart James for The Guardian wrote, "Without wishing to put any extra pressure on Ranieri and his players, it is starting to look as though it would