Charnock, Lindsay

Born in Wigan, Greater Manchester, on May 8, 1955, he became apprenticed to Denys Smith during which time he rode 76 winners.Averaging some 20 winners per season, his greatest success came on Last Tango in the 1976 Ayr Gold Cup for John Sutcliffe.

He spent the winter of 1983/84 riding in India.

He also rode in Macau and was lucky to survive a car accident there in which two Australians were killed.

Following riding some 800 winners, he was compelled to stop in January 2000 because of a circulation problem caused by a split artery in his groin. 

This resulted in Lindsay having his right leg amputated below the knee. 

Lindsay had undergone more than 30 operations beforehand to rectify the problem, thought to have been caused by the many falls he had taken over the years.

He was associated with the good horses Flanders, Pipalong, Jemima and his two Cesarewitch winners Old Red and Turnpole, both trained by Mary Reverley.

His greatest disappointment was getting beaten a short head on Flanders by Richard Quinn on Mitcham in Ascot's 1999 King's Stand Stakes.

After his operation he worked for  Peter Easterby, helping out in the yard. Lindsay's wife, Gloria, was agent to Easterby's number one jockey, David Allan.

Having spent June, 2015, in Malta - with more than 80 others, all there as guests of the Injured Jockeys' Fund - Lindsay died on Friday 28 August, 2015, aged 60.