Racing great Pat Eddery dies at the age of 63

Bob Brogan
Topic Author
Administrator
Posts: 82511
Thanks: 6460

Racing great Pat Eddery dies at the age of 63

9 years 7 months ago

www.racingpost.com/

PAT EDDERY, champion Flat jockey 11 times and the winner of 14 British Classics, has died at the age of 63.

Eddery was one of the most successful riders of all time and partnered more than 4,500 winners.

He also won four Arcs and was aboard Dancing Brave for his breathtaking triumph in 1986.

His CV is punctuated with many of the world's other great races including a brace of Gold Cups, two King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes and he was also champion jockey in Ireland in 1982, 27 years after his father Jimmy had won the title for the second time.

As well as Dancing Brave, he was associated with some of the best racehorses of the late 20th century, among them Bosra Sham, El Gran Senor, Grundy and Pebbles, whom Eddery won the Breeders' Cup Turf on in 1985.

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

Dave Scott
Administrator
Posts: 43867
Thanks: 3338

Re: Racing great Pat Eddery dies at the age of 63

9 years 7 months ago

#585086

Very sad an excellent jock and will never forget him with Dancing Brave

May he RIP

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

Bob Brogan
Topic Author
Administrator
Posts: 82511
Thanks: 6460

Re: Racing great Pat Eddery dies at the age of 63

9 years 7 months ago

#585091

Remember this Derby like it was yesterday( 1990)

I had just been sacked from a job for fighting and emptied my bank account on Quest FOr Fame

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

rubber
Premium Member
Posts: 476
Thanks: 6

Re: Racing great Pat Eddery dies at the age of 63

9 years 7 months ago

#585096

Bob, I bet you had no voice after the race.

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

khargisland
Senior Member
Posts: 216
Thanks: 28

Re: PAT EDDERY PASSES AWAY AT 63

9 years 7 months ago

#585101

One of the all-time greats. Right up there with Sir Gordon Richards & Lester Piggott.
RIP

www.google.co.za/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=...weZgnvrKpXRdsS1s6VCw

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

Paythepublic
Premium Member
Posts: 810
Thanks: 42

Re: Racing great Pat Eddery dies at the age of 63

9 years 7 months ago

#585103

R.I.P,sad news.

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

Dave Scott
Administrator
Posts: 43867
Thanks: 3338

Re: Racing great Pat Eddery dies at the age of 63

9 years 7 months ago

#585121

What about the Grundy win was that not one of the best races ever?

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

flydubai
Premium Member
Posts: 607
Thanks: 126

Re: Racing great Pat Eddery dies at the age of 63

9 years 7 months ago

#585185

A legend. A real legend.

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

istabraq
New Member
Posts: 8
Thanks: 0

Re: Racing great Pat Eddery dies at the age of 63

9 years 7 months ago

#585194

Make no mistake Pat Eddery was right up there with the very best. I will remember him mainly for his 1986 Arc victory on Dancing Brave but also for his championship battles in the UK with Steve Cauthen. Today's news was not a real shock as he had been ill, but a sad day nevertheless. RIP to a turf legend.

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

Bob Brogan
Topic Author
Administrator
Posts: 82511
Thanks: 6460

Re: Racing great Pat Eddery dies at the age of 63

9 years 7 months ago

#585225

istabraq wrote: Make no mistake Pat Eddery was right up there with the very best. I will remember him mainly for his 1986 Arc victory on Dancing Brave but also for his championship battles in the UK with Steve Cauthen. Today's news was not a real shock as he had been ill, but a sad day nevertheless. RIP to a turf legend.

To think he was multiple Champion against the likes of Cauthen, Piggott, Carson , Starkey all legends in their own right

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

Bob Brogan
Topic Author
Administrator
Posts: 82511
Thanks: 6460

Re: Racing great Pat Eddery dies at the age of 63

9 years 7 months ago

#585321

How many sportsmen have Demons ?

Below was posted to Instagram by Pats daughter

She wrote: "Filled with grief this morning that my dad Pat Eddery is no longer here. It's been five years since I last saw [him], we stayed in touch and spoke on the phone, I never missed a birthday etc and not a day went by when I didn't think about him.

"The last time I saw him face to face was when I brought him home from rehab and he drank straight away. I turned to him and said 'dad if you choose to drink over health and family, I can't be part of that life for you.'

"Sadly his addiction was too strong and he couldn't overcome it. My siblings and his close friends did all we could to help him battle his illness, but we lost in the end. It has been so sad to witness his decline and my siblings and I knew that we would loose him to his demon drink.

"But that said, I loved him so much and I had probably the best childhood anyone could ask for. I was so proud and still am so proud to be his daughter, he was an amazing jockey, father and husband, but in the end he was taken over by a terrible disease."

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

mikesack
Platinum Member
Posts: 3347
Thanks: 201

Re: Racing great Pat Eddery dies at the age of 63

9 years 7 months ago

#585326

Bob Brogan wrote: How many sportsmen have Demons ?

Below was posted to Instagram by Pats daughter

She wrote: "Filled with grief this morning that my dad Pat Eddery is no longer here. It's been five years since I last saw [him], we stayed in touch and spoke on the phone, I never missed a birthday etc and not a day went by when I didn't think about him.

"The last time I saw him face to face was when I brought him home from rehab and he drank straight away. I turned to him and said 'dad if you choose to drink over health and family, I can't be part of that life for you.'

"Sadly his addiction was too strong and he couldn't overcome it. My siblings and his close friends did all we could to help him battle his illness, but we lost in the end. It has been so sad to witness his decline and my siblings and I knew that we would loose him to his demon drink.

"But that said, I loved him so much and I had probably the best childhood anyone could ask for. I was so proud and still am so proud to be his daughter, he was an amazing jockey, father and husband, but in the end he was taken over by a terrible disease."

Thank you for revealing why the legendary Pat Eddery succumbed to the illness that also cut short the lives of other sporting greats amongst them one Georgie Best also?

However I will prefer to remember Pat as the handsome best looking jockey that visited our shores in the days of the jockeys int. at Scottsville .