Jockey Váňa to run for the Senate

The legendary Czech jockey Josef Váňa has revealed that he wants to run for a seat in the Senate in next years elections to the upper chamber. Váňa won the Velka Pardubicka steeplechase eight times before retiring last year after taking a bad fall. Vana told the news site Novinky.cz he wants to run for the ANO party whose leader, Andrej Babis, he admires.