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Jonathan Irwin, who has died aged 82, was a leading British-Irish bloodstock personality, auction house supremo, publisher and racetrack executive.
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Bloodstock industry pioneer and children’s charity CEO is remembered as imaginative, persuasive, debonair and a true one-off
Jonathan Irwin, who has died at the age of 82, was a gregarious Eton-educated optimist who became a pivotal figure in Irish horseracing and bloodstock and later, along with his second wife Mary Ann O’Brien, became even better known as the founder of the respite charity, the Jack and Jill Children’s Foundation.
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