Marcus Foley
Jump jockey Marcus Foley was born on August 27, 1981. His father, Patrick, ran a pre-training yard for Captain Charles Radclyffe.
Jump jockey Marcus Foley was born on August 27, 1981. His father, Patrick, ran a pre-training yard for Captain Charles Radclyffe.
Marcus spent 11 years with Lambourn trainer Nicky Henderson and rode almost 200 winners. He was champion conditional in the 2002/03 season. The following season he won the 2003 First National Bank Gold Cup at Ascot on Iris Royal and the 2004 Tote Gold Trophy at Newbury on Geos. He rode winners for the Queen and Queen Mother and rode Iris Royal in the 2006 Grand National, pulling up shortly after halfway.
Marcus spent 11 years with Lambourn trainer Nicky Henderson and rode almost 200 winners. He was champion conditional in the 2002/03 season. The following season he won the 2003 First National Bank Gold Cup at Ascot on Iris Royal and the 2004 Tote Gold Trophy at Newbury on Geos. He rode winners for the Queen and Queen Mother and rode Iris Royal in the 2006 Grand National, pulling up shortly after halfway.
He announced his retirement, aged 27, at the start of August 2009, to run a pre-training and schooling yard at Rockley, near Marlborough, in Wiltshire. He had experienced problems related to a broken right arm following a fall from Solar System at the Chair in the Becher Chase in 2006. Ironically, he had fractured the same arm in a fall from Juveigneur in the previous year’s Becher Chase.
He announced his retirement, aged 27, at the start of August 2009, to run a pre-training and schooling yard at Rockley, near Marlborough, in Wiltshire. He had experienced problems related to a broken right arm following a fall from Solar System at the Chair in the Becher Chase in 2006. Ironically, he had fractured the same arm in a fall from Juveigneur in the previous year’s Becher Chase.