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I read that too Sparrow!! I be inclined to favour Alexander, given "Sandy" and the various sources. Aren't most Andrews "drew????.
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Very inappropriate on a forum to use selective knowledge.
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Joe is still alive Cutter. Unfortunately Manny was killed in 1959.
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I like that, Salmon, as he was my dad's best jockey.
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Alistair is gaelic for Alexander
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Well done. Go to the local employment department, and produce you CV. A sweeping post awaits.
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cork now that made me laugh great side step there hahaha
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Even when he's wrong he's sort of right
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No sort about it, is all true, unless I am having one of those "dim" moments...!
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Wiki says........"Alistair is a masculine given name. It is an Anglicised form of the Scottish Gaelic Alasdair. The latter is most likely a Scottish Gaelic corruption of the Norman French Alexandre or Latin Alexandrus, which was incorporated into English as Alexander".
Thats what I mean by sort of  His given name apparently IS Alexander!! |
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Sandy is Scottish for Alexander, so I would assume that you are correct blackbarn.
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If my memory is correct, did he not ride for Sam Hall when he returned from France. I`m pretty sure he did, but I may be wrong, but I seem to recall that he struck up a good partnership with Dakota?
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He was stable jockey for Denys Smith for a while I think. Certainly confined largely to the north.
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Denys Smith was an excellent Northern trainer. Did he not train for L B Holliday?
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If that's Major Lionel Holliday didn't he have a lot of horses with Dick Hern ?
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Correct Salmon, in fact Hern moved from asst trainer to Michael Bishop to be private trainer to Major Holliday in 1957. He was still defo training for LBH in 1962 because he trained his first classic winner that year (Hethersett). Re Denys Smith, I think he trained for Brook Holliday (son of Major) but not sure if he ever trained for the Major. Hard to be sure as the Major changed his outside trainers very frequently (private trainers were Brooke, Cottrill, Hern and Wharton in that order)
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Joe Mercer was an excellent jockey who finally won a championship and thoroughly deserved to. He was too loyal to trainers to beat Lester.
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In HRAC's 1983 "On the level" he said........
"Joe Mercer was a wonderfully conscientious stable jockey.....a true professional and a very stylish rider, who keeps his horses so perfectly balanced that they always run for him. He was retained for us the year that he became champion, 1979 and deserved to be acclaimed as a truly great one, as he was absolutely brilliant. At 44, he was by no means a young man in years, but very much in heart, and proved himself a real master of his craft in his handling of Kris, Light Cavalry, Le Moss and Buckskin". |