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MAVERICK WHO STOPPED WHEN HE HIT FRONT

Graham Buddry remembers the ‘colourful’ career of Little Bay

Gordon Richards was named by his father after the champion Flat jockey of the time although he had no real interest in racing himself. Apprenticed as a youngster to Jack Waugh, disbelieving Stewards were having none of it on his first appearance in the saddle and refused the youngster’s request to have the numbers board list him as Gordon Richards the second. Eventually Jack Waugh gruffly told them to, “put a ‘W’ for Waugh in the middle” and so Gordon W. Richards began his career.
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