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Julian Wilson
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He was succeeded by Clare Balding. Between 1969 and 1991, he was one of the commentators for the Grand National and for a time he had editorial control over the British Broadcasting Corporation"s midweek racing coverage. Born in Sidmouth, Devon, his father was the Daily Mirror sportswriter Peter Wilson.
Outside his presenting career, he was a racehorse owner and racing manager.
He was a racehorse manager to Sir Clement Freud and Walter Mariti. Wilson was a former pupil of Harrow School.
Wilson felt that he had been misled as to whether or not he would succeed O'Sullevan as chief British Broadcasting Corporation race commentator. He also said that he had a strained relationship with Balding.
Wilson died of cancer on 20 April 2014.
He was twice married. Once to Carolyn Michael in 1970, then to Alison Ramsay in 1981.
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His winners as an owner included Tumbledownwind, a two-year-old winner at Glorious Goodwood and Tykeyvor, a winner in the Bessborough Stakes at Royal Ascot in 1996, trained by Lady Herries. In his autobiography Some You Win, published in 1998, he revealed a rift with Peter O"Sullevan, his long-time colleague at the British Broadcasting Corporation.
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