From wireworks to winners - businessman turned trainer Maurice Avison dies at 94
Maurice Avison, a Yorkshire businessman who fulfilled his childhood dream by becoming a racehorse trainer, is remembered as "a gentleman" and "a great judge of a horse" after dying at the age of 94.
He sent out just over three dozen winners over jumps and on the Flat in nearly a decade and a half with a licence, including prolific hurdler Dom Edino.
Avison and his widow Penny developed their yard at Nawton near Helmsley which is now owned and occupied by Roger Fell and where David O'Meara first made his name as a trainer.
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