That's the won, Fidway!

didnt he have a problem at one of his daughters birthday parties allegedly

When Fred Archer died at the age of 29, apparently he was worth around 6.5 million in today's money, left it all to his daughter!

I never accepted he rode anything like the number of winners he claimed. At the end of every summer there'd be a quote from him about being on the 89-winner mark, and how he was looking forward to reaching the century again. But who could remember him actually riding any of those winners? All he seemed to do was spend summer after summer easing market drifters into fourth place at Brighton.

Thought he was given shares in all his Group winners at stud,but that may well end in the event of passing.

A neighbour in my road Father passed away 3 years ago. He died aged 92 and left over £5,000,000 to his carer that he had known for only 18 months. His 2 sons and grandchildren got nothing, not a shilling.

maybe she earned it

neighbour just over the road  widow  in her 90s  husband was a doctor ,not short of a few quid ,very ill had incurable cancer  ,my missus and another neighbour looked after her  a few hours at night mainly ,run errands  see that she was comfortable etc ,she said her house was worth about half a million  used to ask my missus to  buy the "value "food  from sainsburys saying that she needed to put away as much money as she could for her 4 sons who were all over 50 from what i saw of them they looked like they wernt short of a few quid ,  never saw them visit her in the last 3 years one lived about 4 miles away , near the end  doctor visited her and said she had to go into a hospice,and an ambulance was arranged  to take her there ,my missus got the sons phone number who lived nearest and rang him to say he needed to be with her in the ambulance , he starts umming and arring saying something about its  not ideal  with his timescale ,said to my missus could you go with her !
missus lost it and give the kant a few choice words and home truths and he was there the next day
she passed away a few days later in hospice , the sons put the house on the market for £800,000  greedy ****s ,it didnt sell for 18 months untill they reduced it to just over half a million ...........

"pat was estranged from at least one of the daughters.... she just couldn't be around his drinking and the family had tried all they could before reaching that decision"

I remember a story when he was coming out of rehab, one of his daughters picked him up and drove him home, first thing he done when he got home started drinking. That was the point she gave up and they had virtually no contact for last 5 years.

Leaving his 4 children out of his will and leaving his entire estate to his lover when his kids got nothing at all, that is very sad. Don't know the whole story about him and wouldn't want to judge him at all, but seems his addiction was too strong and he couldn’t overcome it. He was a brilliant jockey and remember him from his apprentice days when Eddery and Philip Waldron were the 2 top lads.

In the days of Terry Wogan on Radio 2 and his infamous 'Wogans Wager' circa 1972, my mum used to back P. Eddery (3), P Waldron (5) and P Madden (7).
The amount of collects she had was unbelievable.