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Iain Williams
Iain Williams
Article by Alan Trout
Article by Alan Trout
Iain Paul Williams was a conditional jockey with John Webber and rode three winners under National Hunt rules in the early 1980s.
Iain Paul Williams was a conditional jockey with John Webber and rode three winners under National Hunt rules in the early 1980s.
His first victory came at Towcester on Easter Monday, April 7, 1980, when Mid Day Gun, owned and trained by John Webber, won the Duncote Maiden Hurdle (Division 1), beating Brave Duke by two lengths. The six-year-old Mid Day Gun was a typical John Webber late maturing type and he went on to win several decent long-distance chases over a long career.
His first victory came at Towcester on Easter Monday, April 7, 1980, when Mid Day Gun, owned and trained by John Webber, won the Duncote Maiden Hurdle (Division 1), beating Brave Duke by two lengths. The six-year-old Mid Day Gun was a typical John Webber late maturing type and he went on to win several decent long-distance chases over a long career.
It was to be 18 months before Iain scored again. It came when Sister Brown, making her debut under NH rules, was a comfortable winner of the Grunwick Stakes National Hunt Flat Race at Cheltenham on October 8, 1981, the margin of victory in the 30-stronmg field being ten lengths.
It was to be 18 months before Iain scored again. It came when Sister Brown, making her debut under NH rules, was a comfortable winner of the Grunwick Stakes National Hunt Flat Race at Cheltenham on October 8, 1981, the margin of victory in the 30-stronmg field being ten lengths.
Just 16 days later the partnership was reunited at Newbury in another race of the same name, this time with 24 runners. Sister Brown won again, although she had only a neck to spare at the finish, holding on to beat Dictive despite edging badly right in the closing stages. The trainer’s son Paul then took over in the saddle and Iain had no further success.
Just 16 days later the partnership was reunited at Newbury in another race of the same name, this time with 24 runners. Sister Brown won again, although she had only a neck to spare at the finish, holding on to beat Dictive despite edging badly right in the closing stages. The trainer’s son Paul then took over in the saddle and Iain had no further success.
His final ride was on Derry Dancer, trailing home a tailed off seventh of eight finishers in the Charlecote Novices’ Handicap Hurdle at Warwick on May 25, 1985.
His final ride was on Derry Dancer, trailing home a tailed off seventh of eight finishers in the Charlecote Novices’ Handicap Hurdle at Warwick on May 25, 1985.
Iain Williams' first winner: Mid Day Gun, Easter Monday, April 7, 1980
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