On Sunday, July 14, 1929, apprentice jockey William Broadhurst died at the Rous Memorial Hospital, Newmarket, after an operation for appendicitis.
He'd had his first ride just a year earlier when partnering Rufforth for Miss E Mercer in a selling plate at Birmingham (April 10, 1928).
That September, he had also finished third on Desiree in an apprentice plate at York.
William's last ride before falling ill was on Rufforth in the Rufford Abbey Maiden Apprentice Plate at Nottingham on Monday, October 8, 1928.
