Ian Lawrence

Jump jockey Ian Lawrence rode around 150 winners during a 12-year career, He was apprenticed to Andy Turnell and rode his first winner on Tracys Special in the three-mile Royal Windsor Handicap Chase at Windsor on January 20, 1988.

He gained his biggest victory on Valrodian in the Dennys Gold Medal Novices’ Chase at Leopardstown on Boxing Day 1991.

Among other good horses he rode were Mr Frisk and Toby Tobias.

When he retired from riding he became a jockeys’ valet.