#BettingPeople Interview IAN WATKINSON Ex-Jockey and Author 1/4

#BettingPeople: Ian Watkinson’s 13 year career as a national hunt jockey ended with a near fatal fall at Towcester in 1979, cutting short a career that included winning eight times on Tingle Creek, five times on Night Nurse and three on Sea Pigeon. He was of the old school of hard man jump jockeys, strapping broken bones in order to take the next ride and a social life to match the rough and tumble on course. In four parts the fascinating story of an iron man jockey. Meeting IAN WATKINSON with Simon Nott.

Part 1 of 4

Ian talks about why he decided to tell his story in his book ‘The Going Up Was Worth The Coming Down’, the crashing fall that ended his career, being known as an Iron Man of the weighing room, his numerous broken bones and how the jockeys managed their injuries in the 1970s.