Jockeys are the ‘bravest of the brave’ who risk their lives every day, but is the huge prize money worth the risk?

FOR a man with 19 French aristocrat ancestors who died at the guillotine, it is perhaps surprising Nicolai William Chastel de Boinville chooses weekly to risk his own neck.

English veteran National Hunt jockey Nico, 34, has escaped with that part of his body intact but has broken almost every-thing else.

ITV docu-series Champions: Full Gallop takes viewers behind the scenes of National Hunt racing De Boinville falls from Shishkin in King George VI Chase GettyDe Boinville...