Fontwell Park Second August Meeting 1983 Tuesday 23rd August Official Racecard

Bull Lea Sire of Kentucky Derby Winners Citation (1948), Hill Gail (1952), Iron Liege (1957) and many leading money winners including Armed, Bewitch, Coaltown etc Bull Lea leading American sire for five years is standing at Calumet Farm, Lexington, kentucky

Gordon Richards, on whose services Fred Darling’s have first call, rode Mr. J.A. Dewar’s Sansonnet to victory on three occasions during 1935. “Moppy” Richards, as he is known, rode his first winner at Leicester, on Gay Lord, March 31st 1921, and since becoming champion jockey in 1925, he has held this distinction for nine seasons…

Johnny Dines Rode Jean’s Dream to victory in the Manchester November Handicap of 1933, in Mr. A. Boazman’s colours. He was apprenticed to the Irish trainer, J. Musker, and rode over 500 winners during five seasons in Ireland before coming to England and joining J. Killalee’s stable at Epsom. Dines gave a perfect exhibition of…

Robert Dick was brilliantly conspicuous in the saddle during the 1933 season. At the Ascot meeting he won three big races on consecutive days for Lord Astor – the St. James’s Palace Stakes, Coronation Stakes, and the Waterford Stakes, worth, in all, £10,030. He also won on The Divot and dead-heated on Mannamead at the…