Susie Dent
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My fact is that the original Todd in the phrase on your Todd died on his Todd.
So this was James Foreman Sloan, but Todd Hunter was his middle name and the Todd bit was a bit of a cruel name.
that his father had given him because he was extremely small and he was originally called Toad by his father.
Because of his small stature, that was the one thing that he was hugely successful at.
He was the toast of society in the US.
He was an incredibly successful jockey.
And then he actually came over to England.
He rode for the kings.
He rode the king's horses.
But then he was accused of insider betting.
Which he was later exonerated of, actually.
But he was effectively cancelled in today's terms.
And he wrote a kind of autobiography which talked about him basically being on his own.
But he did very much died a sad death from cirrhosis of the liver, in fact.
He was pretty close to them because he pioneered the monkey crouch position, didn't he?