Sandy barclay jockey where is he now

Leger Stakes nel Nagaika era la pronipote di Neomenie, una cavalla i cui altri discendenti includevano il vincitore del Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe Nikellora.

In rettilineo, il puledro ha aperto un netto vantaggio sui suoi avversari e sembrava certo di vincere prima che Lester Piggott producesse Sir Ivor con una corsa in ritardo sull'esterno. Connaught cavallo Article November 14, Related Article Titles Fairy Footsteps. The trainer said in his biography: "Sandy Barclay appeared just not to have the mentality to make the grade. Perhaps I was a bit hard on him, but he was always turning up late for work and sometimes not coming at all.

Then, when he rode a very bad race on Parmelia, I got bloody annoyed and sacked him. The jockey moved to France in to ride for Francois Boutin. His most notable mounts there were Cambrizzia, who proved herself the best filly of his career when third to Mill Reef in the Arc, and Zapoteco, who won the Prix de la Salamandre the following year. He split with Boutin in , returned to Britain and linked up with Sam Hall, for whom he won the Ebor on Dakota in , and then with Denys Smith, but his European career was in terminal decline.

He spent several years riding in India before returning home in , and scored his th and last British victory in He then helped with an English-language school for foreign students at Woodbridge in Suffolk run by his wife Miranda, a sister of Lady Lloyd-Webber. They had three children, Iona, Alexander and India. He was the boy wonder tipped to be the next Lester Piggott Sandy Barclay returns victorious on Lupe after winning the Oaks at Epsom.

Having recovered, he tried his luck in India, riding for John Ciechanowski who was one of Sheikh Mohammed's trainers. Returning to Britain in , he rode just six winners, his first successes in Britain since In that year he also married Miranda. She gave him three children - Iona, Alexander and India. He finally quit riding in after a year career.

The family lived in a converted rectory at Blexhall in Suffolk. Its large grounds were also home to a variety of ponies, dogs, horses, cats and various other pets. Barclay became involved with the language school for foreign students which Miranda organised. Sadly, Sandy was hit hard by two family setbacks which proved challenging in later years.

His daughter Iona suffered severe head injuries in an accident during a rally across Europe. At the same time, his son Alexander, who served in the Royal Scots Greys, was shot in a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan.

Though badly wounded, he still went back into battle to help an injured colleague. He was awarded the Military Cross for his bravery, becoming the youngest soldier in the British Army to receive that medal.

Sandy Barclay died in Newmarket of cancer of the oesophagus and upper lungs on Saturday, February 20, , aged His wife, son and daughter were with him when he passed away.