Jones married his second wife Anita Pollinger on 24 January 1981, and also had two daughters with her - Jessica Lillian (born 4 September 1981) and Annabel Charlotte (born 26 June 1988).
On 1 February 1996, he won his first race, on Digpast, in the one-mile Ontario Amateur Riders Handicap at Lingfield in Surrey, England [REF].