Top northern Flat jockey Johnny Seagrave dies
JOHNNY SEAGRAVE, former top northern Flat jockey, has died at the age of 76.
Johnny Seagrave:36-year career
PICTURE: Steve NashThe ultra-popular Malton-based Seagrave, probably best remembered for winning the Ayr Gold Cup on Roman Warrior, the Haydock Park Sprint on Princely Son and the Gimcrack Stakes on Music Boy, retired from the saddle in 1984, following a 36-year career that yielded close to 1,000 winners.
Seagrave, who was also a very successful trainer, owner and breeder of greyhounds, enjoyed notable associations with a number of trainers, among them Rufus Beasley, for whom he won the John Smith's Magnet Cup on Farm Walk, Bill Elsey, Pat Rohan, Snowy Wainwright, the trainer of Music Boy, Jimmy Etherington and Paul Davey to whose father Ernie, Seagrave had originally been apprenticed; he rode his first winner at Lincoln in 1948.
Edward Hide, who rode against Seagrave for many years, said on Tuesday: "Johnny was a very determined jockey, widely admired for his tenacity and his will-to-win."
