Category: Horse Racing

  • Sir Gordon Richards

    Sir Gordon Richards

    Born: 5/5/1904 Donnington Wood, Telford, England Died: 10/11/1986 Kintbury, Berkshire, England Horse Racer download video script Click images to enlarge Gordon Richards was an English jockey who was the British flat racing Champion Jockey 26 times and he is often considered the world’s greatest jockey. He remains the first of only two only flat (not…

  • Willie Carson

    Willie Carson

    Born: 16/11/1942 Stirling, Scotland. Horse Racer download video script Click images to enlarge Willie Carson rode his first winner at Catterick in July 1962 and went on to be champion jockey five times – 1972, 1973, 1978, 1980 and 1983. He won 17 Classic races, including the Derby in 1979, 1980, 1989 and 1994 (the…