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About Marcus Armytage
- Marcus Armytage (born 17 July 1964) is a journalist and former National Hunt jockey who won the Grand National as an amateur in 1990, riding Mr Frisk.
- He was educated at Eton College. Armytage's win in the 1990 Grand National on Mr Frisk came in a record time of 8m 47.80sec.
- It remains now the only sub nine-minute National, smashing Red Rum's previous record from 1973 by some 14 seconds, even though the race has been shortened since 2013.
- Armytage remains the last amateur rider to win the race. Mr Frisk and Armytage went on to complete the unique National-Whitbread Gold Cup double at Sandown Park Racecourse three weeks later.
- The same year, 1990, he was Fegentri European Champion Amateur.
- In 1992 he repeated a feat achieved by his sister Gee in 1987 by riding a double at the Cheltenham Festival, winning the Fulke Walwyn Kim Muir Challenge Cup on Tug of Gold and National Hunt Chase Challenge Cup on Keep Talking.
- His third Festival winner was on Christmas Gorse in the National Hunt Chase in 1994.
- He retired in 2000 after riding his 100th winner - in Dubai. His father was Roddy Armytage, a racehorse trainer based in East Ilsley, near Newbury, and his mother was Sue Armytage, who as Sue Whitehead was an international showjumper.
- His younger sister Gee was also a National Hunt jockey.
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