2.00 The Tottenham Welter Plate 1st Marly Knowe 11/10 fav ridden by A Breasley trained by Captain H Ryan Price 2.30 The Juvenile Selling Stakes 1st Darby’s Vixen 7/2 ridden by F Durr trained by R Read 3.00 The Three-Yrs-Old Stayers Handicap 1st Via Victoria 3/1 fav ridden by A Breasley trained by S Ingham…
Royal Ascot Tuesday July 12th 1955 Going Firm Queen Anne Stakes £1437 15 shillings 1 mile Golden Planet D Smith St James′s Palace Stakes £5510 1 mile Tamerlane A Breasley Ascot Stakes (Handicap) £2780 2 miles 4 furlongs Wildnor C Gaston King Edward VII Stakes £5186 1 miles 4 furlongs Nucleus L Piggott Coventry Stakes…
1.30 The Corinthian Handicap Plate 1st Ralootown 5/2 fav ridden by J Hislop trained by J. de Moraville 2.00 The Rugeley Selling Plate 1st Double Light 6/1 ridden by D L Jones trained by J Mason 2.30 The Staffordshire Handicap Plate 1st Fearless Chum 6/1 ridden by E Mercer trained by K Cundell 3.00 The…
Recognise this young man? It’s a chubby Lester Piggott, who rode his first winner at the age of 13, being led out of the parade ring at Windsor by hi father, Keith Piggott, who recently announced his retirement from training. Lester, who is fighting hard to win his fourth jockeys championship, comes from a family…
2.00 Maiden Two Yrs Old Stakes 1st Kate’s Dilemma 3/1 ridden by Sam Wragg trained by J C Waugh 2.30 Links Maiden Three Yrs Old Handicap 1st Sensible Girl 10/1 ridden by Doug Smith trained by Dines 3.00 Bretby Nursery Handicap 1st Run Honey 8/1 ridden by Eph Smith trained by J Jarvis 3.30 Newmarket…
Pando in 1947
1.15 Chard Plate (Div. I) 1st Irish Dance 33/1 ridden by C Richards trained by Whiteman 1.45 Puddletown Plate 1st Themis 11/4 ridden by G Richards trained by Cannon 2.15 Handley Handicap Plate 1st Invasion 7/2 ridden by F Lane trained by Nightingall 2.45 Whitchurch Stakes 1st Aldis Lamp 4/11 ridden by C Richards trained…
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…
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…
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…