sparrow - it was definitely Speid-Soote.

As for Sandy Barclay, my memory comes up with J Barclay, but I wouldn't trust it on this one. I'll look up a few old cards and see if another trainer shows up regularly and rings a bell. The only horse I remember him riding from his earlyish days is Parcel Post.

Wasn't Sandy Barclay apprenticed to Harry Whiteman ?

Ged, ta for the Tommy Kelsey info. Did he win on Forlorn River for 'Stivvie' in the 1967 July Cup or did Bruce Raymond ride it ?

Whit - I reckon you'll get plenty of requests.

Can you bring up Flyingbolt's Massey Ferguson? December 1965.

Shalimah is it Mornington Cannon?

Paulbu - It was Bruce raylond. 8-1.

its the duke d'alberceque,excuse the spelling!

WHIt - one more request from me - I don't want to monopolise the request list - but the Grand National of 1900 if you can, where Manifesto carried 12-13 having won the race twice in the previous 3 years.

re Sandy Barclay - I think Paulbu is right.


Here's a piece off the net, resulting from someone searching on the Whiteman family. Reference to Sandy is towards the end, but I thought the material on Harry Whiteman was interesting enough:-



Harry was a racehorse trainer from approximately 1933 to 1968.  I have received some useful information from the National Horseracing Museum.  They provided me with extracts from the Sporting Chronicles – Horses in Training pages.


Locations of his stables were:

    1933 – 1940 Fairlawne, Training Stables
    1941 – 1945 Russley Park, Baydon, Marlborough, Wilts
    1946 & 1955 – Park Farm, Upper Lambourn Berkshire.  Owners included: Col J Thomson, G W Brocklehurst, C C Wooton, H M Beaufoy . Jockeys included: C Bentick, B Boot E C Brown, I Morgan.
    1956 – 1961 Place Newton, Wintringham, Malton, Yorkshire
    1962 - 1968 – Cree Lodge, Craige Road, Ayr Scotland.  Owners included Lord Weir, The Hon A Mackay, Major Stuart Black.  Jockey was J Skilling.  Horses listed: Field Master, Final Parade, Cezanne, Kings Flash.

The Museum also believes that his colours were old gold, scarlet sash and cap; they conclude that he owned some of the horses he trained.



Further information obtained from members of a horseracing forum about Harry's professional life includes:

Davy Jones - possibly one of the unluckiest losers of the Grand National. Major Cazalet was trainer of Devon Loch and Cromwell, but Harry Whiteman trained Davy Jones at Fairlawne, which was the property of the Cazalet family at the time of the 1936 Grand National. Here are Harry Whiteman's own words:

"I was on the Aintree stands and thought everything was going so well, with my two runners, Emancipator, ridden by Mr Cazalet, and Davy Jones, ridden by Mr Anthony Mildmay. Emancipator was travelling well in fourth place, three fences from home, when he fell. But I still had Davy Jones standing and going so nicely that I really thought myself certain to achieve the big ambition of every trainer of steeplechasers and win the Grand National. He took the third fence from home, and for me he was travelling better than his only serious opponent, Reynoldstown, who was carry 12st 2lb was conceding Davy a lot of weight. Davy Jones took the second last perfectly and success looked certain. But then he swerved to his left and out of the course and Reynoldstown was left with the race at his mercy. Later I found the buckle on his reins had loosened and that broke the rein. So that, try as he would, Mr Mildmay could not steer Davy Jones, who finished amongst the spectators gathered on the far side between the last two fences."



From the Racing Post cuttings section:

 

'1965 Sandy Barclay is just beginning to make a name for himself. Having ridden his first winner a couple of months ago, the 70lb apprentice is in double form at Ayr with two strikes for his mentor Harry Whiteman, who is based across the road at Cree Lodge. First, Secretive gets the better of Gold Case in the mile handicap and then Royal Helen beats Paddy Charbon in the sprint handicap.'



There is a reference to a Harry Whiteman in a book about the Shropshire Yeomanry and it goes on to say that he was first jockey for the Emporer of Austria at the outbreak of war.  At the time that the book was written in 1950, it mentions that Harry was a successful racehorse trainer in the south of England.

ged..........Flyingbolt. Write-up and race

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whitwhitlaw....any chance you'd have the racing cards for 02/05 /1951...of particular interest to myself ...thanks....

Surprising to see Nimrod Wilkinson with a ride in the Massey Ferguson. He was more likely at this time to be seen at Sedgefield and Hexham.

workrider.....2 May 1951. I've had to break the contents down - it would have been too small to read otherwise.

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Whitlaw - many thanks again.

I was interested to note that there were Place-only odds advertised for Manifesto's race as well as win odds. Was that image from the Sporting Life?

I'm afraid I can't see the evidence of Dunkirk not running. What am I missing? (Just curious0

And can you put up an image of that Folkestone card from Aug 2, 1960?  The date is about right - I'd have been off school and my dad probably had his holiday in August; and I'm curious to see why I remember Stan Smith riding a double as well as Eddie Cracknell. Would it be Stan Clayton? My (then) child's brain has miscontrued something. Everything else fits.

WHITWHITLAW, any chance of the Liverpool card the day Master Barry won the Autumn Cup, mid 60's not sure of exact year.

"Hughes ..7 winners on one Racecard.
Now up there with Frankie, AlecRussell and Gordon Richards et al."

And Pat Eddery also deserves a mention as well, pretty sure he had 7 winners in one day but not on one racecard it was over 2 meetings, so deserves to be included for that, still some achievement.

Re the Duque of Alburquerque, amazing character, remember Peter O'Sullivan one year covering the National on TV and when the jockeys came into the paddock, this old crock jock sort of staggered in and remember Peter O'Sullivan saying something like, "My God, is HE going to ride in the National." The poor chap really didn't look fit enough and looked like he only just made it to the paddock.

A real character, he had so many injuries but kept coming back.  But in the end they refused to give him a licence when he was nearly 60 and still wanted to go out again. 

I'm glad he got mentioned on this thread. He was a complete one-off.

thanks very much whitwhilaw , really enjoyed reading those ..i noticed boyd rochford , henrys father in law i think , had a runner that day...i was at phoenix park the day he made his come back as a trainer in ireland...a huge man , happy days

thanks, had half a crown on it SP,the last show on tv was 100/8, after it won at 100/7 I thought I had won less, I was eight years old.

he was a true sportsman....