Wootton, Frank - won the first of 4 consecutive flat jockeys championships in 1909 aged 15. Joined the Army in 1914 and served in Mesopotamia.
While stationed there he rode the winner of the Baghdad Grand National, an event the history of which has thus far avoided the vast tentacles of the internet.
Airborne. 1947 Derby winner who was thought to be impotent but an encounter in a paddock with an 18yo mare called Eastlock who was thought to be barren resulted in the birth of a foal who was rather aptly named Flyingbolt.
Bull, Phil - founded Timeform in partnership with form student Dick Whitford in 1947.
Subsequently published Timeform: Racehorses of 1948 in the first of a series still going strong. A full set of these publications will set you back a sum well into five figures.
Airborne. 1947 Derby winner who was thought to be impotent but an encounter in a paddock with an 18yo mare called Eastlock who was thought to be barren resulted in the birth of a foal who was rather aptly named Flyingbolt.
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While stationed there he rode the winner of the Baghdad Grand National, an event the history of which has thus far avoided the vast tentacles of the internet.
Subsequently published Timeform: Racehorses of 1948 in the first of a series still going strong. A full set of these publications will set you back a sum well into five figures.
The great flyingbolt?
The very one.
Grade.
The horse was subsequently requisitioned for service in the French Army and died of shrapnel wounds shortly after the outbreak of war.
Has had many problems to deal with including being born with one ear and a deformed jaw bone which has been surgically replaced by one of his ribs.