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Billy Shand-Kidd blackbarn ? (well he might have fallen off in one)
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Remember him well g2d,rode stacks of Winners.
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Paul Tulk - Got a big job for the McAlpine tartan, just after his successful apprenticeship (or even during). My Uncle Jack was a great fan of his, one of his four
 best ever apprentices in the history of the world |
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Good man, as i say he never seems to get a mention so we've put that to rights..
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There was a category that I'd call, ageing,wise,trusted workrider/jockey that dosen't seem to exist on the scale of former days. In this category I'd have included Frank Morby ( Peter Walwyn), Steve and Kevin Raymont ( Jeremy Tree), Brian Proctor (**** Hern), Jock Skilling ( various Northern yards)- and many others that I can't remember.
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Frank Morby, remember his association with Yamadori.
Johnny Seagrave is another oldtimer worth a mention. |
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Dennis Maitland
Geordie Ramshaw Davis East Alan Cousins |
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David Maitland (clown me)
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SOme I remember from my early daye
Norman McIntosh Brian Henry Brian Connorton Denys Ryan |
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Geordie Ramshaw had very large ears!! and he insisted on keeping twenty % of same beneath his cap which gave him a very strange vaguely aerodynamic look. I will try to find an image.
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Ray Reader
Russ Maddock George Cadwalder Trevor Rogers |
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Can you find one of his boss Staff Ingham as well matey..
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Have to spoken to George Cadwalder on a few occasions many,many years ago. He won't remember me. Liked a drink but seemed a really genuinely OK person. The last time I spoke to him was at Haydock approx 30yrs ago and was he driving Bruce Raymond back home to Newmarket. Think he'd just finished a short stint working as a workrider for Harry Thomson Jones.
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I think George rode for Eric Cousins earlier on
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Yeah, when he had Sangster horses. He also did a stint as assistant to Mick Easterby ( Sangster horses there st the time too), then on to Tom Jones. If he is still alive he'd be around 70 I'd guess.
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Bruce Raymond,now he was a very good Jockey,i think he rode the first Winner that i ever Led-Up.
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Bruce Raymond is racing manager to someone isn't he. Typical of me that I know more about him as an apprentice than I do now!!. He was one of Willie Stephenson's top boys in the early sixties, and went on to be a top jock - won several group 1's I think.
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Rabbah Bloodstock, blackbarn..
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Alain Lequeux was a very good jockey, won the St. Leger on Son Of Love and was a frequent visitor over here riding for Olivier Douieb when he had a great spell in the UK training winners. You just had to take notice of his runners at the time.
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Typical of me that I know more about him as an apprentice than I do now!!
Think it's known as oncoming dementia! I used to be able to reel off the first dozen in all the classics and big jumps races from the mid 70's to mid 80's, and still ahve a lucid memory of that era. However, sometimes I'll struggle to remember who won the Derby two years ago or who won the GN last years. Worrying indeed !!! |
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* half dozen
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Blackburn, Art Stephenson's gallops were at the botton of my road in Royston. John Jenkins took over later on obviously.
There is a golf course nearby on Royston Heath that you are not allowed to use buggys as it has a 45 degree lean towards the A505  |
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That's the one Guinness. Long face, slightly lugubrious in the nicest possible way. Him not them of course.
Re Staff Ingham, not sure I have ever seen a photo of him. Saw him in the flesh in his "pomp" of course. However, the blackbarn files run ever so deep so you never know Spoke to Jimmy Lindley at Glorious Goodwood. Lovely man, he politely disputed that I ever saw him ride over hurdles 'cos I looked too young (a very nice man!). Looked very dapper, aged 77. Would have loved to have talked to him for longer (about Aggressor and Double Jump) but there was a queue for his attention! Nice!! |
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Does Jeff ride his hoss down there, Slippy ?
That might explain his indifferent drawl.... |
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I was always a Big Fan of Jimmy Lindley,i doubt that man ever said a bad word about anybody.
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Even fillies, acey...
Everyone was "really nice" |
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No idea g2d, I have long since moved from that neck of the woods but I had a good time living there for about 12 years or so. Hardly missed a meeting at Fakenham, Newmarket, Huntingdon and Towcester in those days, not to mention Henlow dogs! Jockeys used to drink in my local, no need to mention names but without doubt they were the worst tipsters going.
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Verboten - glad I am not alone, but it's worse for me. Aged 12 (1964) I could recite every Derby and Grand National winner since inception (Diomed and Lottery respectively) and I could do most of the other classics too. My dad used to bet elderly friends (and blokes in the pub)that I could name the big two winners for the year they were born. He didnt lose much.
Some of it sticks, but as you say it is the recent stuff that is the hardest. If I am still allowed to stop at 1964 (Santa Claus and Team Spirit) I can still perform. |
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Beautiful Hands !!!
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@Blackburn. Jimmy Lindley, lovely fella, remembering him riding hard fought (I use the word advisedly)finishes with Lester after which both would called up by the stewards for "a clash of whips."
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Don't think anyone has mentioned Frankie Durr a cracking big race jockey who did me few favours over the years
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Just thought Id give a mention for Brian Taylor (brilliant)..............met his sad end soon after falling at the finishing line from a stumbling horse.................
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Brian Rouse was one of old old favs
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sj.........Young Ross Atkinson is related to him....
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Well guys----no need for names, but I met a well known jockey from the 70s/80s a few years ago,who by then owned a very lavish hostelry-------I asked him one morning "which of the big winners payed for all this lot then ?"-----------he just smiled and said------------- "it wasn't the winners that paid for this lot son !"
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frankie durr rode the leger winner , and did he ride that famous 100/1 sprint winner in the 70s...something boy..? blackbarn , i've joined that club .....
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didn't know that mange,will keep an eye on the lad
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mange did brian get killed out foreign ....?
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As a schoolboy i lived within yards of Fred Rimmells stable and recall Terry Biddlecombe, Ken White, John Burke and Sam Morshead...
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Know the horse you mean but it's gone from mind.
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