He enjoyed his most important victory on the Jack Fawcus-trained Courtesan in the 1960 Cheshire Oaks. That was also his most successful season with a score of 34 winners.

He rode occasionally over jumps during the 1960s, achieving his only success in that sphere on Tear Gas, also trained by Fawcus, in a Market Rasen novices’ hurdle on 16 November 1963.

Tony rode a total of 258 British winners.

He spent much of the latter part of his career riding abroad, including in Scandinavia.

Tony, a former St Malachy's School pupil, was the eldest of 12 (10 sisters, 1 brother).

He was the father to two daughters (Helen & Carole) and one son, Tony, who became a jockey and rode winners but tragically drowned, aged 37, in a swimming accident in San Diego, California, in August 2000.

Tony's grandson Alistair is also a professional jockey.

Anthony (Tony) Rawlinson died on Saturday, May 30, 2015, aged 78. His funeral was held at Springwood Crematorium, Garston, Liverpool, followed by interment at Allerton Cemetery.