Ivor Beckinsale

Ivor Beckinsale, aged 24, died after a fall at Wolverhampton races on Boxing Day, 1951.

He had just reached the third hurdle in the Gailey Novices' Hurdle (Div 1) when his mount, Crown Witness, stumbled and threw him. Ivor hit his head on the wooden railings and was rushed to a local hospital where he died from a fractured skull.

The son of a Broadwell, Gloucester, farmer, Ivor had been riding for two years. He was the stable jockey of Major J. B. Perry and had ridden his first winner, Town Crier, at Wincanton on January 25 that year.