Fancy one tonight

yep........ only jockey to fall off twice and still win the national

Thanks EMR

.... hope you had a few shillings on.

Anybody know biggest price matched on My Ukulele in running?

He actually was an apprentice jockey:

It was decided to send the young Georgie away to start a new life as a stable-boy, to train as a jockey. This pleased Eliza, who came from a racing family; her father had been a former jockey and horse-breaker, as was her uncle, and her sixteen-year-old cousin Jimmy Sharples had won the Cesarewitch at Newmarket. Now George Senior and Eliza had ambitions for Georgie to carry on the Hoy family tradition. Later that year, the seven-year-old boy was sent to Bishops Cannings in Wiltshire to be a stable boy.

He was moved not long afterwards to the stables at Middleham in North Yorkshire to work for George Drake, a big bookmaker, and then to Epsom in Surrey, where he had his first mount in a race at the age of ten. George Senior had arranged for a private tutor to teach his son for two hours in the morning and two hours in the afternoon. Sometimes Georgie went and sometimes he didn’t. So long the tutor got paid, he didn’t mind whether Georgie showed up or not. This lack of even a basic education would haunt him throughout his life, crippling his ability to deal with his own business affairs, and making him totally dependent on his future wife Beryl to have control and run his career. 


And he rode without success in a celebrity race in 1938 (link below)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-Jh0XMzFbw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfdW87Xx1Z0