1957 - Michael Hayes dismounting from Bonhomie after winning the Ascot Stakes
1966 - JOE MERCER
1967 - George Moore unsaddling 1000 Guineas winner Fleet
1967 - Geordie Ramshaw
1968 - D "MICKEY" GREENING
1973 - Walter Bentley on Crisalgo
1977 - John "Kipper" Lynch
1979 - Steve Cauthen with trainer Barry Hills shortly before winning on his debut in England
1980 - Walter Swinburn
1985 - Philip Waldron
1985 - Walter Hood
1988 - Alan Munro
What happened to Colin Moss who was apprenticed to Bob Read. We were pals at school in Daventry
ReplyDeleteTony Abbott
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Hi Tony,
ReplyDeleteI don’t really know where Colin Moss is or what happened after he finished riding here. I did a few searches though and the only thing I managed to turn up was an article in the Miami Herald dated the 9th of January 1983 referring to a race meeting at Gulfstream Park which had the following text attached to it…
“Colin Moss, 39, a 114 pound jockey from England stood beneath a steady drizzle at the finish line surveying the crowd of over 21000.”
I couldn’t access the full article as you have to register as a user of the site I believe the article is 564 words long and it’s $2.95 to view it.
I think that would be “the” Colin Moss… 39 in 1983 would make him born around 1944 which I think would fit the profile of Colin, but you’d probably know better than me if it’s likely to be him. So that leaves it open to the possibilities, was he just in Florida for the winter or had he relocated there and is he still out there?
Burnsy
Hi Burnsy,
ReplyDeleteThanks for your searches and prompt reply.
As you say, that must be the Colin Moss I was enquiring about Didn`t know he`d gone to the States.
Remember his first winner was Lilac Time for Bob Read. He also had a very favourable write up in one of the dailies that year as he lost his right to claim the 7 and 5lbs. quite quickly.
I was born in `42,and we sat together in class, so was he lying about his age!
Remember all the jockeys mentioned on your web site. Their names bring back a few memories, as I`ve always been an avid racing fan.
Thanks once again.
Tony
Colin Moss was indeed born in the Summer of 42 (as the film went...)according to free BMD - he had three initials which is very posh - C.J.T.
ReplyDeleteInterestingly, he appears only under those initials in the 1964 Horses in Training, as a 7-12 National Hunt Jockey (!) with the same Daventry phone no. as his Flat jockey entry under the more usual appelation of C.Moss. (later he had a nearby Long Buckby no.) In 1958 he was riding at 6-0.(!)with Mr Read at Lambourne. By 1970, his riding weight was over 8st. What did his third initial stand for?
Hi, I live in the states, but as a teenage boy,in Notts, I remember Colin Moss riding on the flat for Notts trainer Jack Hardy, who had some pretty decent horses, such as the NH chaser Glanford Brig
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