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One New Year’s Day at Leicester, we had a winner that took an age for the jockey to pull up. He went around the bend and out of sight; on the groom asking him did he have trouble pulling up (the horse was a wooden-headed git) he replied that he just wanted to get out of sight so he could throw up since he was so hungover.
I believe some of the great jockeys of the ’60s were drunk a frightening amount of the time, judged on what I’ve read in several autobiographies..
Yes, I’ve heard several such stories. They all seem to involve Terry Biddlecombe in some way, shape of form.
I believe some of the great jockeys of the ’60s were drunk a frightening amount of the time, judged on what I’ve read in several autobiographies..
Yeah, the alcohol helped counter the effect of running and jumping into direct sunlight, being put through wooden wings and concrete posts, hitting the ground without a body protector, and all those other things they used to do back then when jockeys were real men and not like today’s wimpszzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
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I believe some of the great jockeys of the ’60s were drunk a frightening amount of the time, judged on what I’ve read in several autobiographies..
Yes, I’ve heard several such stories. They all seem to involve Terry Biddlecombe in some way, shape of form.
I trump your Terry Biddlecombe with my Johnnie Haine.
I believe some of the great jockeys of the ’60s were drunk a frightening amount of the time, judged on what I’ve read in several autobiographies..
Yes, I’ve heard several such stories. They all seem to involve Terry Biddlecombe in some way, shape of form.
I trump your Terry Biddlecombe with my Johnnie Haine.
I double trump your Johnnie Haine with my Barry Brogan
I believe some of the great jockeys of the ’60s were drunk a frightening amount of the time, judged on what I’ve read in several autobiographies..
Yes, I’ve heard several such stories. They all seem to involve Terry Biddlecombe in some way, shape of form.
I trump your Terry Biddlecombe with my Johnnie Haine.
I double trump your Johnnie Haine with my Barry Brogan
Game over!
I don’t really think many jockeys were actually drunk in the sixties , although I have as much evedence for that as others may have for the popular view <grin> . I do think that many might have been somewhat hungover after a night in the Adelphi.
I just don’t think that Fred Rimell, Ryan Price , Neville Crump and other trainers like them would have stood for a jockey being drunk.
As for the need for a drink in order to face the job , I think that jockeys like Peter Pickford , who was prepared to ride anything and often rode some really bad animals, would have been permanently pickled!I do vaguely remember a jockey (whom I will not name as he is still around) who was arrested after coming in on a winner at Doncaster I think. He was under the influence of drink and had unfortunately, and accidentally, hit someone on the way to the course and that person died from his injuries. The details are vague in my mind but I think that that is pretty much right.
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I do vaguely remember a jockey (whom I will not name as he is still around) who was arrested after coming in on a winner at Doncaster I think. He was under the influence of drink and had unfortunately, and accidentally, hit someone on the way to the course and that person died from his injuries. The details are vague in my mind but I think that that is pretty much right.
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A jockey in winning action today has served time for such an offence.
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