Frankie Durr (10 November 1925 - 18 January 2000) was a four-time Classic-winning jockey in the 1960s and 1970s and later a moderately successful racehorse trainer.
[1] He rode his first winner, Merle, at Pontefract in 1944 and the following year was joint Champion Apprentice, tied with Tommy Gosling on 10 wins.
[2] It took him some time after this to build a reputation[1] but eventually, he became the retained jockey of the Duke of Norfolk at Arundel Stable, where he would stay for six years.
[4] In that year, the stable had 59 horses, with Greville Starkey as first jockey and two apprentices, Aaron Weiss and Robert Lea.
Durr refused to ride at evening meetings so he could spend time with his family at his farm in Kirtling outside Newmarket, which cost him in terms of winners and being able to challenge for the Jockeys' Championship, although he was 4th in both 1968 and 1969.
He used to work everything out - the wind conditions and when he should tuck in, how the grass had been mown and how that would affect the running of a race - the real finer points that no other jockey would think about".