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'A great man and a great little jockey' - tributes paid to Frank Morby | Horse Racing News


Frank Morby: died at home in Kenya on Friday at the age of 87
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UPDATED 4:20PM, MAY 9 2021
Tributes have been paid to jockey Frank Morby, who died last Friday at his home in Kenya at the age of 87. 
After a modest five wins as an apprentice to George Colling in the early 1950s, Morby graduated from mostly riding work for Bernard van Cutsem during the 1960s to carve out a race-riding career which yielded 264 winners in Britain, initially with Vernon Cross and later as understudy to Pat Eddery at the all-powerful Lambourn yard of Peter Walwyn. 
Longtime friend Mick Channon said: Frank introduced me to Newmarket – I don t know if that was a good or a bad thing – and we go back to the days of Vernon Cross, with Elsy [David Elsworth] driving the horsebox and Richard Hannon there too.  ....

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