William Fisher Hunter Carson, OBE (born 16 November 1942)[1] is a retired jockey in thoroughbred horse racing.
His first winner in Britain was Pinker's Pond in a seven-furlong apprentice handicap at Catterick Bridge Racecourse on 19 July 1962.
Five feet tall and riding at an easily maintained weight of 7 stone 10 pounds (49 kg) Carson was much in demand as a jockey up to his retirement in 1996 at the age of 54.
He is almost certainly the only jockey in the 20th century to have ridden a horse that he bred, Minster Son, to victory in one of the Classic races, the St. Leger Stakes 1988.
In the 1983 New Years Honours List, Willie Carson was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the Civil Division for his services to horse racing.