Chris Hoggard

[Dallimann]

My brother has just informed me of the sad news that my old friend Chris Hoggard passed away on Thursday. He was proprieter of the White Rose Saddlery in Malton, having started out life as an apprentice come travelling head lad by Jimmy Etherington. I have many, many fond memories of Chris, a very special person and friend. My thoughts go out to his family.

Night, Night God Bless Chris.

Beverly

[racinggirluk]

Racing Post: TRIBUTES to Chris Hoggard, the popular
proprietor of Malton’s White Rose saddlery
business who died in his sleep on Thursday
aged 53, have been led by the town’s
trainers’ association secretary Noel
Scaling, who described him as “an
amazing character”.
Malton’s racing community has been
shocked by the sudden death of Hoggard,
who had run his business in the town
where he was born for 25 years, along
with his wife Wendy, herself a master
saddler.
Hoggard, a diabetic, suffered various
health problems for much of his life.
He underwent two kidney transplants
and was fitted with a prosthetic limb
after he lost a foot through problems
caused by diabetes.
Scaling said: “Despite everything he’d
been through, he just got on with life and
enjoyed it. Although he wasn’t too well
about six weeks ago, he’d come through
that and was working the day before
he died.
“I found him an amazing character
who had a tremendous racing knowledge
and an appreciation of all things Yorkshire,
especially cricket.
“He was hugely well known and liked,
and I’m sure everyone is going to miss
him terribly.”
Hoggard, a former apprentice with
Jimmy Etherington, had gone full circle
in the last year or two by having a halfshare
in two horses trained by Jimmy’s
son Tim Etherington at Wold House,
where Hoggard had re-sited his saddlery
business in a redeveloped part of the
historic yard.
The Racing Post’s Tom O’Ryan said: “I
knew ‘Choggy’, as most people called him,
most of my life. We went to school
together and went into racing more or
less together.
“His enthusiasm for the game never
waned – he was passionate about it – and
he had a remarkably positive attitude to
his illness problems over many years.
He was a very popular guy and his
death has come as a huge shock to all.”
Russ Garritty was another with fond
memories of Hoggard, who, through
White Rose Saddlery, sponsored the
former jockey for 15 years.
Garritty said: “He was a true gentleman,
a man of his word, and I will always
be very grateful for what he did for me.
Everyone who knew him is going to
miss him.”
Funeral arrangements have yet to be
confirmed

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