Harry Carr (jockey)

At the age of 16, he spent the winter in India riding for the Royal Calcutta Turf Club, winning his first important race - the £3,000 Kashmir Cup - on a horse called Filter, which had been previously trained by Armstrong.

His early successes in England had been forgotten, and his record in India was largely unknown, resulting in owners overlooking him.

However, he was eventually recommended to replace Doug Smith as jockey to King George VI, taking up the role on 1 September 1946, at the age of 30.

He rode the favourite, Clarion III in the 1948 season-opening Lincoln Handicap, heading the largest ever field assembled in a British flat racing of 58, but was beaten when the horse didn't stay the distance.

The King paid for a bone graft in a London clinic,[1] but the absence was costly for Carr's career.

It was not until 1955 that he won a Classic himself, when he took the Fillies' Triple Crown with the Boyd-Rochfort-trained Meld for Lady Wernher, as well as the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot.

However, in a notorious incident, his rival Romulus fell six furlongs from home, bringing down others, resulting in the death of one horse and hospitalisation of four jockeys.

In July 1964, he retired, on the advice of doctors, to manage Genesis Green Stud in Wickhambrook near Newmarket, which he had founded in 1958.