Arthur Bingham

Arthur Bingham

Article by Alan Trout

Born in 1885, Arthur Bingham had some success as a National Hunt jockey at the turn of the 20th century, riding eight winners. His first was at the Isle of Wight meeting on April 28, 1899, when Jack Heron beat Leader, the mount of top jockey Ernie Acres, by a head in a tight finish for the Selling Handicap Hurdle, with Queen Emblem, ridden by Arthur Makepeace, just a neck further away in third. 

That was Arthur Bingham’s only win of the year, and in both 1900 and 1901, he also achieved a solitary success. However, 1902 went better with four wins, including one on both days of Torquay’s Easter fixture on Patrick’s Ball in the Stewards’ Chase and Nor’Easter in the St Mary-Church Hurdle. 

After that, there was only a comfortable victory by 20 lengths on the five-year-old Carthage II in the Worcester Hunt Steeplechase at that course on April 28, 1904. He did not renew his licence the following year. 

Arthur Bingham’s wins were, in chronological order:

1. Jack Heron, Isle of Wight, April 28, 1899 

2. Piccaninny, Birmingham, January 26, 1900

3. Nor’Easter, Windsor, December 21, 1901 (walkover)

4. Patrick’s Ball, Torquay, March 31, 1902

5. Nor’Easter, Torquay, April 1, 1902

6. Nor’Easter, Beaufort Hunt, April 15, 1902

7. Red Friar II, Newton Abbot, May 1, 1902

8. Carthage II, Worcester, April 28, 1904