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WHAT HAPPENED TO...LINDSAY CHARNOCK?
Lindsay Charnock was forced to bring his career as a leading northern jockey to a premature end through injury, but he is paying back the sport to which he feels he owes so much.
The Northumberland Plate, two wins in the Cesarewitch, and an Ayr Gold Cup were major handicaps which number among his 700 successes on the domestic front, which are topped up by more than 200 abroad.
He was still riding as well as ever when just seven days into the new Millennium he was dealt a cruel blow, as he recalls: "I was riding at Southwell in the January and just as my horse jumped out of the stalls my leg went dead and when I got off of him, it just collapsed under me.
"To cut a long story short the problem turned out to be in a vein in my groin and to get it sorted out I had to have a plastic vein inserted, but in the August I was told that I would not be able to race ride again."
What made it all the more frustrating was that he had been only week off getting back on the racecourse, and there were good horses like Pipalong, Flanders and Jemima for him to continue riding.
He recalled with a wry smile: "I have had 15 operations in all to get it put right, but I was 44 at the time and I had thought I would carry on until I was 50. I would have been happy with that because I had had a good innings."
He began his career as an apprentice with Ron Barnes in Cheshire with his first winner coming on Sally's Choice at Lanark in 1971, and four years later he joined Denys Smith on the advice of his mentor, Denis Leah.
"It was the best move I ever made and I was with Denys for five years before I went free-lance, but I continued to ride for Denys and was also lucky enough to ride for Peter Easterby and his son Tim, Mick Easterby, Bill Elsey, Herbert Jones, and Jimmy Etherington, all top men."
Pipalong is the best horse he has ridden, and he said: "Tim and I always said she would win a Group One race if she got her ground, she liked it soft, and she did, at Haydock, but it was after I packed in and Kevin Darley rode her."
It was a cruel blow when he was forced to hang up his boots, but he was determined not to forget the game had which provided him with a good life, and when the chance to stay involved came along, he jumped at it.
Charnock, whose wife Gloria is agent for smart apprentice David Allan, David McCabe and Natalia Gemilova, said: "I ride out for John Wainwright and I am working part-time on the BHB education programme which is run by the its education officer Steve Varey who is doing a fantastic job
"Basically the idea is to try and get young kids interested in all facets of racing, it does not seem to sell itself as well as other sports and Steve organises parties of schoolchildren to come and visit racecourses and be shown all the aspects involved."
Former jockey Derek Byrne, Niall Hannity, who is still riding successfully, Vaughan Jones, an ex-teacher, make up Varey's team, and Charnock continued: "It is going really well, the racecourses are a big help and there are between eight and nine thousand young children coming along per year throughout the country.
"Some of them might want to become jockeys - and that is not a bad profession especially if want to see the world for free! - but it just might sow the seed of them doing something else in the game when they leave school."
Charnock misses the challenge and excitement of race-riding, but he concluded: "You just have to get on with things and I really enjoy the involvement with the BHB - I would love to do it full time."
WHAT HAPPENED TO...LINDSAY CHARNOCK?
Lindsay Charnock was forced to bring his career as a leading northern jockey to a premature end through injury, but he is paying back the sport to which he feels he owes so much.
The Northumberland Plate, two wins in the Cesarewitch, and an Ayr Gold Cup were major handicaps which number among his 700 successes on the domestic front, which are topped up by more than 200 abroad.
He was still riding as well as ever when just seven days into the new Millennium he was dealt a cruel blow, as he recalls: "I was riding at Southwell in the January and just as my horse jumped out of the stalls my leg went dead and when I got off of him, it just collapsed under me.
"To cut a long story short the problem turned out to be in a vein in my groin and to get it sorted out I had to have a plastic vein inserted, but in the August I was told that I would not be able to race ride again."
What made it all the more frustrating was that he had been only week off getting back on the racecourse, and there were good horses like Pipalong, Flanders and Jemima for him to continue riding.
He recalled with a wry smile: "I have had 15 operations in all to get it put right, but I was 44 at the time and I had thought I would carry on until I was 50. I would have been happy with that because I had had a good innings."
He began his career as an apprentice with Ron Barnes in Cheshire with his first winner coming on Sally's Choice at Lanark in 1971, and four years later he joined Denys Smith on the advice of his mentor, Denis Leah.
"It was the best move I ever made and I was with Denys for five years before I went free-lance, but I continued to ride for Denys and was also lucky enough to ride for Peter Easterby and his son Tim, Mick Easterby, Bill Elsey, Herbert Jones, and Jimmy Etherington, all top men."
Pipalong is the best horse he has ridden, and he said: "Tim and I always said she would win a Group One race if she got her ground, she liked it soft, and she did, at Haydock, but it was after I packed in and Kevin Darley rode her."
It was a cruel blow when he was forced to hang up his boots, but he was determined not to forget the game had which provided him with a good life, and when the chance to stay involved came along, he jumped at it.
Charnock, whose wife Gloria is agent for smart apprentice David Allan, David McCabe and Natalia Gemilova, said: "I ride out for John Wainwright and I am working part-time on the BHB education programme which is run by the its education officer Steve Varey who is doing a fantastic job
"Basically the idea is to try and get young kids interested in all facets of racing, it does not seem to sell itself as well as other sports and Steve organises parties of schoolchildren to come and visit racecourses and be shown all the aspects involved."
Former jockey Derek Byrne, Niall Hannity, who is still riding successfully, Vaughan Jones, an ex-teacher, make up Varey's team, and Charnock continued: "It is going really well, the racecourses are a big help and there are between eight and nine thousand young children coming along per year throughout the country.
"Some of them might want to become jockeys - and that is not a bad profession especially if want to see the world for free! - but it just might sow the seed of them doing something else in the game when they leave school."
Charnock misses the challenge and excitement of race-riding, but he concluded: "You just have to get on with things and I really enjoy the involvement with the BHB - I would love to do it full time."
thanks delta he rode a couple of horses for me many years ago
charnock was at the wheel of a car which crashed at high speed on a bridge in macau a few years back
seem to recall it was alleged he had been drinking beforehand after the races in hong kong
tragically two aussie journalists who were passengers were killed and three others seriously injured
he left hong kong shortly afterwards
seem to recall it was alleged he had been drinking beforehand after the races in hong kong
tragically two aussie journalists who were passengers were killed and three others seriously injured
he left hong kong shortly afterwards
he works for a firm in leeds which collect plastic bottles im afraid the demon drink took him and he is just amanual worker these days on £300 per week
shame
shame
heard it earlier but couldnt find anything about it to confirm it
The first jockey I ever asked for an autograph at Musselburgh one evening...didn´t even know who he was.
I was only 14 at the time.
I was only 14 at the time.
https://sites.google.com/site/allsoppfredjockey/charnock-lindsay
Cheers dealer...not a name i could remember at all.....Looks well before i opened my eyes to the game
Former jockey Lindsay Charnock, a top lightweight on the northern scene, has died at the age of 60.
Apprenticed first to Ron Barnes and later Denys Smith, Charnock's first winner came at Lanark in 1971. He retired in 2000 after a career tally of around 600 winners.
He had a successful association with North Yorkshire trainer Tim Easterby, for whom his victories included the Windsor Castle and Weatherbys Super Sprint on Flanders in 1998 and the Lowther Stakes at York on Jemima the following year.
Charnock also played a key role in the early career of Group One-winning sprinter Pipalong. He steered the filly home in the Redcar 2-Y-O Trophy in 1998 and the Great St Wilfrid Handicap at Ripon and the Listed Wentworth Stakes at Doncaster in 1999.
Among his other notable triumphs were the 1987 Northumberland Plate on the Jimmy Fitzgerald-trained Treasure Hunter and the Ayr Gold Cup on Last Tango for Epsom trainer John Sutcliffe in 1976.
"It's very sad. He was a cracking jockey, good work rider, a good judge and he rode Flanders for me among others," said Easterby.
"He rode Jemima and won on Pipalong a few times when she was a two-year-old.
"He was a really good jockey and a nice guy. We'll all miss him."
Charnock's former colleague Kevin Darley said: "I've known Lindsay a long time. It's a shock.
"He was associated with Denys Smith years ago and he was one of the lightweights everybody would call upon, especially for a big handicap."
Charnock had his right leg amputated below the knee nine years ago which was thought to have been caused by a succession of falls.
He was married to Gloria and they had two daughters, Kelly and Selina.
Apprenticed first to Ron Barnes and later Denys Smith, Charnock's first winner came at Lanark in 1971. He retired in 2000 after a career tally of around 600 winners.
He had a successful association with North Yorkshire trainer Tim Easterby, for whom his victories included the Windsor Castle and Weatherbys Super Sprint on Flanders in 1998 and the Lowther Stakes at York on Jemima the following year.
Charnock also played a key role in the early career of Group One-winning sprinter Pipalong. He steered the filly home in the Redcar 2-Y-O Trophy in 1998 and the Great St Wilfrid Handicap at Ripon and the Listed Wentworth Stakes at Doncaster in 1999.
Among his other notable triumphs were the 1987 Northumberland Plate on the Jimmy Fitzgerald-trained Treasure Hunter and the Ayr Gold Cup on Last Tango for Epsom trainer John Sutcliffe in 1976.
"It's very sad. He was a cracking jockey, good work rider, a good judge and he rode Flanders for me among others," said Easterby.
"He rode Jemima and won on Pipalong a few times when she was a two-year-old.
"He was a really good jockey and a nice guy. We'll all miss him."
Charnock's former colleague Kevin Darley said: "I've known Lindsay a long time. It's a shock.
"He was associated with Denys Smith years ago and he was one of the lightweights everybody would call upon, especially for a big handicap."
Charnock had his right leg amputated below the knee nine years ago which was thought to have been caused by a succession of falls.
He was married to Gloria and they had two daughters, Kelly and Selina.
Wee Eck hasn't posted for a year so he's probably either passed on or been sent to prison.
wee eck uses a different username now. Apparently he couldn't handle the bullying on here..
Thanks for that; i hadn't got him down as a sensitive soul
Posts are few and far between, more is the pity, has a wealth of experience in the game and very straight and fair with people, posts under the name of miprixabloater
A good bloke who let the bullies on here get to him. Sad fkcers.
Just been reading through John Berry's blog on his website, trying to glean a bit of info on one of his horses that I quite fancy running at Catterick today (Indira)when I came across this piece he had written on the passing of Lyndsay Charnock.
Made me chuckle so thought I'd share it.
"My favourite Lindsay Charnock story came when he rode a winner for Keith Stone, I think on one of Peter Bottomley's 'Qualitair' horses, at the Craven Meeting, Newmarket's first meeting of the year, some time in the mid-'80s. This was in the pre-AW days, so the jockeys (unless they went overseas in the winter, and this was, of course, in the pre-Dubai days, so there weren't too many opportunities to do that) didn't race-ride between the November Handicap Meeting in early November and the Lincoln Meeting at the end of March. Lindsay did go overseas a few years later when racing in Macau started and he went there with Keith Stone, but in those days fitness at the opening meetings was a big issue, especially as, even once the season was finally under way, they - and particularly the northern ones - would not be race-riding every day in the first month anyway.
Anyway, this Qualitair horse of Keith's was off the bridle for most of the race, probably over a mile and a half, but Lindsay kept pushing, and the horse ground out a dour win. Channel Four was covering the Craven Meeting, and Brough Scott interviewed Lindsay after the race. Brough remarked that Lindsay's fitness so early in the season was clearly good, and observed that he had clearly worked hard over the winter to keep fit, asking how he had done it.
Lindsay's response was typically short and enigmatic: "In t'Hyde Park".
Brough, clearly slightly confused, replied, "Oh, that's good, you go running in Hyde Park, do you?" Lindsay, with a deadpan expression on his face and explaining things simply as one would to a child who is a bit slow on the uptake, paused momentarily and then spelt it out:
"Hyde Park is pub in Malton".
Class.
Made me chuckle so thought I'd share it.
"My favourite Lindsay Charnock story came when he rode a winner for Keith Stone, I think on one of Peter Bottomley's 'Qualitair' horses, at the Craven Meeting, Newmarket's first meeting of the year, some time in the mid-'80s. This was in the pre-AW days, so the jockeys (unless they went overseas in the winter, and this was, of course, in the pre-Dubai days, so there weren't too many opportunities to do that) didn't race-ride between the November Handicap Meeting in early November and the Lincoln Meeting at the end of March. Lindsay did go overseas a few years later when racing in Macau started and he went there with Keith Stone, but in those days fitness at the opening meetings was a big issue, especially as, even once the season was finally under way, they - and particularly the northern ones - would not be race-riding every day in the first month anyway.
Anyway, this Qualitair horse of Keith's was off the bridle for most of the race, probably over a mile and a half, but Lindsay kept pushing, and the horse ground out a dour win. Channel Four was covering the Craven Meeting, and Brough Scott interviewed Lindsay after the race. Brough remarked that Lindsay's fitness so early in the season was clearly good, and observed that he had clearly worked hard over the winter to keep fit, asking how he had done it.
Lindsay's response was typically short and enigmatic: "In t'Hyde Park".
Brough, clearly slightly confused, replied, "Oh, that's good, you go running in Hyde Park, do you?" Lindsay, with a deadpan expression on his face and explaining things simply as one would to a child who is a bit slow on the uptake, paused momentarily and then spelt it out:
"Hyde Park is pub in Malton".
Class.
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