Sir Paul Fox: how the man behind Sports Personality of the Year became a key figure in racing

Of all those people from the world of racing to have died this year, very few have been as significant to the sport as Sir Paul Fox.

Fox, who died in April at the age of 98, was chairman of the Racecourse Association (RCA) from 1993 to 1997, during a time of enormous change in racing.

Within three months of taking up the position in March 1993 the role made him one of the founding directors of the British Horseracing Board (forerunner of the BHA) when it replaced the Jockey Club as the governing body of British racing on June 10, with Lord Hartington (now the Duke of Devonshire) as its first chairman.