Alfred Every

Alfred Every

c1898 - 1940

Article by Alan Trout

Born around 1898, Alfred John Every rode on the Flat for well over a decade and had two winners. He also managed one over jumps. 

He was apprenticed to James Batho, who trained at Alfriston, in Susses, and had his first ride in public on an unnamed three-year-old in the Maiden Apprentice Plate at Gatwick on May 18, 1912, finishing unplaced, having been slowly away. 

He did not ride for much of the First World War but returned in 1919 and had his first success at Gatwick on May 14, 1920, when Floey, trained by Bert Lines, won the Worth Plate, a race for two-year-olds. It was another two-year-old, Wild Honey, that gave Alfred his second win when beating two rivals to land the Kyle Plate at Ayr on August 14. 

Granted a National Hunt jockey’s licence for 1922, Alfred had his only success over jumps when Featherstone, owned and trained by Bert Lines, romped home by a distance in the Hampton Hurdle at Hurst Park on March 10. He only had one other ride over jumps that year and did not renew his licence for 1923, concentrating solely on the Flat from then on, although he failed to register another win. 

One of his last rides was on an unnamed two-year-old who finished seventh of eleven runners in the Coventry Plate at Birmingham on Easter Monday, April 1, 1929, his final season with a licence.  

Alfred Every died in 1940. His winners were, in chronological order:

1. Floey, Gatwick, May 14, 1920  

2. Wild Honey, Ayr, August 14, 1920

3. Wild Honey, Ayr, August 14, 1920