Ted Dodd
Article by Alan Trout
Article by Alan Trout
Edward (Ted) Dodd may have benefitted from there being ten fixtures over jumps (as well as the Queen Elizabeth Chase at Hurst Park’s mixed meeting) when he won his one race under National Hunt rules at Hexham on Whit Monday, May 21, 1956.
Edward (Ted) Dodd may have benefitted from there being ten fixtures over jumps (as well as the Queen Elizabeth Chase at Hurst Park’s mixed meeting) when he won his one race under National Hunt rules at Hexham on Whit Monday, May 21, 1956.
His partner was the four-year-old Fall Guy, trained by Christopher Tomkins, who had finished second in a selling hurdle at the same venue two days earlier when ridden by Basil Richmond. With the latter having gone to Wetherby, where he had a winner, Ted stepped in to win the Causey Hill Selling Handicap Hurdle by five lengths.
His partner was the four-year-old Fall Guy, trained by Christopher Tomkins, who had finished second in a selling hurdle at the same venue two days earlier when ridden by Basil Richmond. With the latter having gone to Wetherby, where he had a winner, Ted stepped in to win the Causey Hill Selling Handicap Hurdle by five lengths.
Ted did not ride Fall Guy again, and although he kept his licence until the 1957/58 season, no more luck, or winners, came his way.
Ted did not ride Fall Guy again, and although he kept his licence until the 1957/58 season, no more luck, or winners, came his way.
