John Francome: ‘Without him, I’d have a completely different life—cleaning cars or in prison’

It seemed that the mentioned events occurred towards the end of the person’s time as a jockey, so the questioner considered an earlier race. They pondered if it could have been Bula or Lanzarote, and then they realized that the person must have been referring to Pengrail, the Sun Alliance Chase winner from 1975. This victory came in the season before the person first became champion jockey.