#BettingPeople Interview IAN WATKINSON Ex-Jockey and Author 4/4
#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 4 of 4
The women in Ian’s life and writing a chapter between them, how did he manage to stay friends with them all, he talks about his time in Australia including training winners, his great mates Bob Champion and Steve Smith Eccles, what might have been had he not fallen at Towcester and how he thinks he’d have fare as a jockey in 2024, plus a bonus revisit of the modelling years.
