Jimmy Lindley's big winners - Jockeypedia

JIMMY LINDLEY was one of the very best jockeys of the 1960s and early '70s, and the big races he won included the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes and three domestic Classics.
Weight problems restricted his opportunities, so he never won more than 71 races in a season or finished higher than ninth in the jockeys' table.
Those statistics do him scant justice and he did enough to establish himself at about the same level as his near-contemporaries Joe Mercer and Edward Hide.

Jimmy was born in Wembley on May 16, 1935, and, after his successful apprenticeship, increasing weight forced him to ride briefly over hurdles and he partnered Retour de Flamme into third place in the 1958 Champion Hurdle.
He possessed rare strength in a finish and it is no coincidence that his three English Classic victories were all gained by a short head or a head on sub-standard winners - Only For Life (1963 2,000 Guineas), Indiana (1964 St Leger) and Kashmir (1966 2,000 Guineas).

Lindley gained his most famous win on Aggressor in the King George in 1960, beating Petite Etoile and Lester Piggott by half a length. The nearest he came to winning the Derby was in 1964, when his mount Indiana was cut down by Santa Claus's late burst and beaten a length.
Ironically, Lindley rode Santa Claus later that season when the Irish champion was beaten three-quarters of a length into second place by Prince Royal in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.
Photo, right, shows Jimmy winning 1964 St Leger on Indiana.
He rode Charlottown in most of his races but not when that colt won the Derby in 1966; Lindley was on his other Derby-placed mount, Black Prince, who was third.
The best horses of his career were Santa Claus and Caro, though he rode those two champions only once each - when they became his only mounts to finish in the frame in the Arc. Caro was the best older horse in Europe when fourth to Mill Reef in 1971.

Lindley was often the first choice when trainers wanted a substitute jockey for their stable stars, like Santa Claus and Caro.
Dick Hern used him with success on Galivanter, Highest Hopes, Sun Prince and Sallust, and would have given him the leg-up on Brigadier Gerard in the Prince of Wales's Stakes at Royal Ascot in 1972 had Joe Mercer not recovered from a plane crash two days before. He sometimes rode Britain's Horse of the Century at home.
Lindley rode regularly for Jeremy Tree (Only For Life and champion two- year-old Double Jump) and Jack `Towser' Gosden (Aggressor and Charlottown), father of John Gosden.

He gave up his battle with the scales in 1974 in order to succeed Clive Graham as BBC TV's paddock commentator.

Jimmy Lindley's classic winners:
Two Thousand Guineas: Only For Life (1963), Kashmir II (1966)
St Leger: Indiana (1964)

Other big winners:
1953:  City and Suburban Handicap – Damremont
1953:  Manchester Cup – Tintinnabulum
1957:  Solario Stakes – Aggressor
1959:  John Porter Stakes – Cutter
1959:  Coronation Stakes (Sandown) – Aggressor
1959:  Hardwicke Stakes – Impatient
1959:  Chesterfield Cup – Aggressor
1959:  Cumberland Lodge Stakes – Aggressor
1960:  Fred Darling Stakes – Soldier’s Song
1960:  John Porter Stakes – Aggressor
1960:  Hardwicke Stakes – Aggressor
1960:  King George Vl and Queen Elizabeth Stakes – Aggressor
1960:  Stewards’ Cup – Monet
1960:  Solario Stakes – Dual
1960:  Guernsey Stud Produce Stakes – Ribelle
1960:  Champagne Stakes – Ambergris
1960:  Cumberland Lodge Stakes – High Perch
1961:  John Porter Stakes – High Perch
1961:  Guernsey Stud Produce Stakes – Windmill
1961:  Nassau Stakes – Rachel
1961:  Middle Park Stakes – Gustav
1962:  Cork and Orrery Stakes – Compensation
1963:  Lingfield Derby Trial – Duplation
1963:  Queen Mary Stakes – Lerida
1963:  King Edward VII Stakes – Only For Life
1963:  Ribblesdale Stakes – Ostrya 
1963:  Nassau Stakes – Spree
1963:  Manchester November Handicap – Best Song
1964:  National Stakes – Double Jump
1964:  Gimcrack Stakes – Double Jump
1964:  Great Voltigeur Stakes – Indiana
1964:  Imperial Stakes – Gulf Pearl
1965:  City and Suburban Handicap – Minor Portion
1965:  Fred Darling Stakes- Night Appeal
1965:  Chester Vase – Gulf Pearl
1965:  Ormonde Stakes – Indiana
1965:  Lingfield Derby Trial – Solstice
1965:  Queen Mary Stakes – Visp
1965:  Solario Stakes – Charlottown
1965:  Horris Hill Stakes – Charlottown
1965:  Middle Park Stakes – Track Spare
1966:  Coronation Stakes (Sandown) – Super Sam
1966:  Queen Mary Stakes – Petite Path
1966:  St. James’s Palace Stakes – Track Spare
1966: Northern Goldsmith’s Handicap – Double-U-Jay
1966:  Geoffrey Freer Stakes – Charlottown
1966:  Sun Chariot Stakes – Lucaya
1966:  Cornwallis Stakes – Green Park
1967:  John Porter Stakes – Charlottown
1967:  Jockey Club Stakes – Acrania
1967:  Coronation Cup – Charlottown
1967:  Princess Margaret Stakes – Photo Flash
1967:  Flying Childers Stakes – D’Urberville
1968:  Temple Stakes – D’Urberville
1968:  Old Newton Cup – Tiber
1969:  Horris Hill Stakes – Double First
1970:  Ascot Gold Cup – Precipice Wood
1970:  Fred Darling Stakes – Highest Hopes
1970:  Musidora Stakes – Whitefoot
1970:  Haydock Sprint Cup – Golden Orange
1971:  Dante Stakes – Fair World
1971:  Stewards’ Cup – Apollo Nine
1971:  Geoffrey Freer Stakes – High Line
1972:  Lingfield Derby Trial – Charling
1972:  St James’s Palace Stakes – Sun Prince
1972:  Coventry Stakes – Perdu
1972:  Gosforth Park Cup – Flintham
1972:  July Stakes – Perdu
1972:  Molecomb Stakes – Miss Slip
1972:  Geoffrey Freer Stakes – Sol’Argent
1972:  Lowther Stakes – Regardia
1972:  Middle Park Stakes – Tudenham
1972:  Cornwallis Stakes – The Go-Between
1973:  Queen Elizabeth II Stakes – Jan Ekels
1973:  Ascot Gold Cup – Lassalle
1973:  Prix du Cadran – Lassalle
1974:  Sussex Stakes – Ace of Aces

In Ireland
1961: Irish Oaks – Ambergris

In Italy
1967: Oaks D’Italia – Dolina