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Alan Maurice Bond was born in Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire, on November 7, 1953, and became apprenticed to Ted Smyth at Epsom.He was left at the start on his first ever ride but quickly made amends when, aged 19, winning his first race, on Swagman, at Brighton on 24 August, 1972.
He was twice the champion apprentice - in 1974 with 40 winners and in 1975 with 66.
Alan rode one of the most improved horses in training
when scoring on Reine Beau in the 1974 Goodwood Stakes. The horse had run 15 times before winning a race of any description, then won four within the space of a month. Alan, claiming 5lbs, won by ten lengths leaving breeding pundits scratching their heads. Reine Beau was by the miler Queen's Hussar yet he stayed two miles and three furlongs easily (below).
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