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Larry Major shone in the 1958-59 National Hunt season, winning 11 races.
Born on September 24, 1930, he was apprenticed to F. A. Armstrong between 1945 & 1952.
His first winner was Anscot in the juvenile hurdle at Southwell on September 6, 1955.
He once rode Calydon lll, a horse so roguish that it once savaged another in the Scottish Grand National won by Merryman ll.
The best horse Larry rode was Siracusa.
Larry rode Dandy Tim in Kilmore's National of 1963.
He lived at 18, Grove Crescent, South Boston Spa in Yorkshire.
Larry married Sheila Openshaw on March 24, 1956. She gave him a son, Peter James & two daughters, Lynda and Louise Ann.
Larry's interests were match fishing, deep sea fishing & pigeon racing.
He retired from the saddle after a bad fall from Mariquita in a Nottingham hurdle race on October 24, 1967, left him with a broken back and epilepsy.
Larry died in 1999, aged 69.Â
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