Stuart Foster
Article by Alan Trout
Stuart James Foster was a conditional jockey with Toby Balding and won four races under National Hunt rules.
Stuart James Foster was a conditional jockey with Toby Balding and won four races under National Hunt rules.
His first victory was at Warwick on December 12, 1988, when the seven-year-old Basket Weave led two flights out and easily beat Tante Marie by five lengths in the 30-runner Ettingham Handicap Hurdle. He had one more success that season when Quai D’Orsay won the Easter Selling Handicap Hurdle on Easter Monday by 15 lengths.
His first victory was at Warwick on December 12, 1988, when the seven-year-old Basket Weave led two flights out and easily beat Tante Marie by five lengths in the 30-runner Ettingham Handicap Hurdle. He had one more success that season when Quai D’Orsay won the Easter Selling Handicap Hurdle on Easter Monday by 15 lengths.
More than a year elapsed before his third win, the draught finally being broken at Newton Abbot on May 15, 1990, when Father John took the lead on the run-in to land the Passage House Inn Hurdle by two lengths.
More than a year elapsed before his third win, the draught finally being broken at Newton Abbot on May 15, 1990, when Father John took the lead on the run-in to land the Passage House Inn Hurdle by two lengths.
A fourth and final victory was secured back at Warwick on January 19, 1991, when None Too Dear, trained like Basket Weave by Toby Balding, led at the last flight and came home five lengths clear of Leading Role at the end of the Alderminster Handicap Hurdle. Stuart had three more rides on the nine-year-old that season without being placed.
A fourth and final victory was secured back at Warwick on January 19, 1991, when None Too Dear, trained like Basket Weave by Toby Balding, led at the last flight and came home five lengths clear of Leading Role at the end of the Alderminster Handicap Hurdle. Stuart had three more rides on the nine-year-old that season without being placed.
Stuart Foster’s winners were, in chronological order:
Stuart Foster’s winners were, in chronological order:
1. Basket Weave, Warwick, December 12, 1988
1. Basket Weave, Warwick, December 12, 1988
2. Quai D’Orsay, Plumpton, March 27, 1989
2. Quai D’Orsay, Plumpton, March 27, 1989
3. Father John, Newton Abbot, May 15, 1990
3. Father John, Newton Abbot, May 15, 1990
4. None Too Dear, Warwick, January 19, 1991
4. None Too Dear, Warwick, January 19, 1991
