Mick was a good rider, and a good bloke,

Is it true Geoff Huffer was a member of pop group Mungo Jerry or am I getting mixed up?

Never met Mornington Cannon but I knew his brother Kempton pretty well ! 

Clocked that, too - Cork

sooty1, perhaps you can remember. Was it Huffer, when asked on tv if his horse had any chance he said no chance, then when it won he came back on bragging that he always knew it would win?

Piece on Mick Miller from 2008.

MICK MILLER, the former jockey and popular personality around Newmarket where he lives, is seriously ill after suffering a brain haemorrhage at his home last week, writes Graham Green.

Since being admitted to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, Miller, 54, has contracted MRSA and is receiving treatment in intensive care for septicaemia.

Miller was stable jockey to Geoff Huffer during the 1980s, and more recently was part of Huffer's support staff during his triumphant return to the training ranks that climaxed with Cockney Rebel completing last year's English-Irish 2,000 Guineas double.

During his time with Huffer, Miller, a diabetic who is married with a son, steered First Movement to victory in the 1981 Ayr Gold Cup and also won on the stable's sprinter Tina's Pet. He was frequently seen in the silks of Terry Ramsden, and after retiring from the saddle became the owner's racing manager.

He has also been a valued workrider for John Gosden.

Huffer said yesterday: "Mick has been a dear friend of mine for a long time, but he is very ill and it is very sad.

"Last week he had a brain haemorrhage at home and fell down the stairs and broke a number of ribs. He went on to the neurology ward at Addenbrooke's, but unfortunately he has contracted MRSA, and now he is in intensive care with septicaemia.

"I'm going to the hospital today in the hope of seeing him again, but I'm not sure they will let me."

Huffer added: "Mick has not ridden work for six or seven years, but he was with me all the time when I came back training and, although Terry Ramsden doesn't have many horses these days, Mick is still his racing manager and he looks after Terry 's interests."

A hospital spokeswoman yesterday described Miller's condition as comfortable.

Put what up??

Following on re Mick Miller from April 2010.

MICK MILLER, the former jockey and a popular personality in Newmarket where he lived, died yesterday morning at West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds after a long battle with cancer. He was 55. He leaves a wife, Janet - a matron at the hospital where he died - and a son, Robert.

Welsh-born Miller was stable jockey to Geoff Huffer during the 1980s and more recently was a member of the support staff when Huffer made a short-lived return to the training ranks that climaxed with Cockney Rebel completing the 2007 English-Irish 2,000 Guineas double.

Miller steered First Movement to victory in the 1981 Ayr Gold Cup and also won on the stable's sprinter Tina's Pet.

Huffer said: "I have a lot of wonderful memories of Mick and he was a really great lad. He was a friend of mine for well over 30 years, and a very good jockey who on his day was great."

Over a career in which he is thought to have ridden around 500 winners, Miller was frequently seen in the silks of Terry Ramsden, and after retiring from the saddle he became the colourful owner's racing manager.

He was also a senior workrider for John Gosden, who said: "Mick rode Keen Hunter and Wolfhound in all their work - they were both Group 1 sprinters and it seemed like sprinters were what he was good at. He was an exceptionally nice man with a great pair of hands and was a very happy and positive member of any team he was in. He was an extremely good-hearted person."

The funeral will be held at St Mary's Church, Newmarket, on Tuesday, May 11, at 1pm. Family flowers only with donations to the Injured Jockeys' Fund and Racing Welfare.

GH can't help lieing, there a name for or names

TambourineMan, I don't keep my racing ear as close to the ground these days and was unaware of Mick Miller's death.
However the piece that says 'Over a career in which he is thought to have ridden around 500 winners', I don't know who is doing the thinking but from the late 70s to 1986 when I reckon Mick finished riding, he only averaged about 20 winners a season. When I went to school 8x20  500.

Didn't Charlie Hall train Clear Cut for most of his wins? He won plenty round Wetherby, and was probably part of the reason for the naming of the Charlie Hall chase.

ribero1 i beleave Maurice Camacho married Sam Hall's daughter Sally.

Maurice Camacho's mother married Charlie Hall. So Charlie was his stepfather.

Sally Hall was Sam's daughter, FACT.

Sooty
I think if you check things out you'll find that Sally was Sam's niece.

Are you sure you got the right Trainer?

As regards Geoff Huffer on telly that day.HIS HORSE WAS DISQUALIFIED!!!!!!.

maybe i was told she was his daughter,

I thought Pipedreamer was a 6/7/8 furlong horse. Bunbury and Wokingham?

Pipedreamer winner of the Royal Hunt Cup and Bunbury Cup in 1979,winner at Sandown at 9-1,Phillip Waldron standing up in his irons desperately trying to hold on to him as he fought desperately for his head,when let down he virtually took off.Does anybody know what happened to him in the Cambs that year, was he hampered?.ITV telly was on srike that year,no cameras,anybody have knowledge of what happened?.