Paddy Young 4-timer – Thursday 28 July 1977

BySteve

1 October 2023
Something a little different today as we look back at a jockey who has found this website very useful in tracing his past.
Patrick James Young was born in Newcastle on November 7, 1954, and became the first jockey to win the Crown Plus Two Apprentice Championship two years in succession (1975-76).
He was apprenticed to Peter Robinson, and rode his first winner, Campari, at Newmarket on August 7, 1971.
He once rode four winners in a day at Carlisle (28/07/1977) and, in 1981, won both the Chester Cup and Royal Ascot’s Queen Alexandra Stakes on Donegal Prince.
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BySteve

Steve Bradley is the man behind this project, an unashamedly nostalgic website dedicated to horse racing’s golden days of the past, featuring vintage racecards, clippings and news stories plucked from the newspapers of the day. A devotee of horse racing’s halcyon days from the 1960s to the 1990s, Steve caught the racing bug as a small boy living near Catterick racecourse, where he was lucky enough to see the great Red Rum in action in the 1970s. He has undertaken private research commissions for various figures within the racing industry. Away from racing he enjoys spending time with his retired greyhound, bar billiards, music, TV, films, reading and travel.

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