#BettingPeople Interview IAN WATKINSON Ex-Jockey and Author 2/4
#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.
IAN WATKINSON Part 2 of 4
Ian recalls his childhood in Newmarket, being school friends with Bill O’Gorman, gravitating to racing via his Uncle Joe, how watching an horrific fall at the Grand National had the opposite effect on him that you might expect, riding in point to points and less than legal ways of losing weight.
