Classic-winning jockey and successful trainer Frankie Durr has died at the age of 74.
He passed away in Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge last night.
Durr leaves a widow, Odette, and a daughter, Liz - who is married to former jockey Geoff Baxter.
Baxter said today: "It is terrible, he died last night.
"He had spent Christmas and the New Year with us but then last Tuesday he had a nosebleed. He went into hospital and he didn't come out."
Durr rode on the Flat for 34 years, landing his first winner at Pontefract in 1944 and finally hanging up his boots in 1978.
His biggest victories came in the 2000 Guineas on Mon Fils (in 1973) and Roland Gardens (1978) and the St Leger on Sodium (1966) and Peleid (1973).
He took up training in 1979, gaining notable successes with Ahonoora in the William Hill Sprint Championship in 1979, Sagamore in the 1980 Cambridgeshire and Camps Heath in the 1985 Ayr Gold Cup.
On his retirement from training in 1991, Durr picked out winning the St Leger on Sodium as the highlight of his riding career, with Ahonoora the pick of those he had trained.
He added: "Horses have been tremendously good to me and because of them I've been able to travel around the world and meet some lovely people."
Durr rode a number of big-race winners for Newmarket trainer Michael Jarvis who paid tribute to the former jockey.
"It's very sad news, we go back a long way," he said. "I knew he hadn't been too well.
"He was a really talented jockey and a very tough competitor.
"He rode my very first winner, Knotty Pine in March 1968 at Doncaster, and he won the Ebor on the same horse.
"He won lots of big races on Tudor Music, the Gimcrack and the July Cup, and he also won the July Cup on So Blessed."
Former jockey Paul Cook rode both against and for Durr and said: "It's very, very sad news, he was one tremendous jockey.
"Riding with him he was always very kind and gave advice to the younger lads and as a trainer he was very fair.
"He was a pleasure to ride with and a pleasure to ride for."
Joe Mercer was a contemporary of Durr's and echoed Cook's sentiments.
He said: "I knew Frank for 50 years. I didn't see much of him in the last few years but I saw him when he was training and he was a great friend of my late brother Manny.
"It's very sad. He was a lovely man and a great jockey, a very tough competitor."
