In Life Beyond The Fall, the bracing and uplifting new documentary about the former jockey Graham Lee, there is an interview with Tilly Cumming, the clinical lead at the Matt Hampson Foundation. Ever since the starting stalls accident that left Lee paralysed from the neck down, almost two years ago now, the Get Busy Living rehab centre has been a pillar of his violently reordered life.
When Lee first arrived, directly from hospital, Cumming didn’t know anything about him. Nothing about his Galway roots or the Grand National he won, or the Ascot Gold Cup, or the year that he was leading rider at the Cheltenham Festival, or the nearly 2,000 winners he rode, split between National Hunt and the Flat and how exceptional that was. She said she could have gone searching on the internet, but she didn’t want to know.
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