Former racehorse transport boss dies aged 70 transport
THE funeral service of former racehorse transport boss Jim Ratcliffe will be held at St Margaret’s Church in Chippenham tomorrow at 3.30pm.
Mr Ratcliffe, who lived at Moorlands Stud in Kentford, died on Wednesday at West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds after a two-year battle with cancer. He was 70.
He had begun his horse transport business in 1983 with just one horse box and built it up into a thriving business before selling it in 2009.
He lived in Chippenham for 20 years and later in Exning before moving to Kentford.
A keen huntsman, Mr Ratcliffe was joint master of the Grove and Rofford Hounds based at Newark in Nottinghamshire and had regularly rode to hounds with the Beaufort and the Berkeley hounds based in Gloucestershire. He leaves a widow, Jenny, three sons and a daughter.
Family flowers only have been requested at the funeral service with all donations to the Hunt Servants’ Benevolent Fund.
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