SANDY DUDGEON


“Maybe my riding days led to me being lucky enough to be elected to the Jockey Club.”


National, so that’s when we knew we had a talented horse on our hands. “In 1982 I thought ‘although this horse of ours is


pretty good, I’m not so good’ so I decided, when I finished my accounting, to go to Michael Dickinson. I was very lucky to get two weeks with him and ended up staying for five months. “It was the experience of a lifetime – not just about the horses but the fact there were 16 licensed jockeys on the staff at that time. Because of my stay there, I came in for the second half of Peaty Sandy’s career. The horse’s permit-holder – the wonderful Helen Hamilton – wanted an amateur to ride him when Geordie Dun turned professional. We won an Eider Chase and five races one season and so that all helped me when I was riding Gayle Warning.


Sandy with Gayle Warning RACING TV CLUBMAGAZINE 33


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