Malcolm Harry Bastard was born on February 26, 1955, and served a five-year apprenticeship with Fred Winter.
His first win came on Linsky, 9/4 favourite, at Fontwell Park on February 8, 1978 and his best season came in 1978-79 with 13 winners.
He was retained by Peterborough trainer Pam Sly, Miss P. Barnes, R Nicholls and M. Blanshard.
In November 1989, he was suspended for 4 days by the Hereford stewards for hitting Travel Music with 'a degree of severity which injured.'
On Saturday, February 24, 1990, Malcolm rode Royal Charge to a 12/1 victory in the Light Infantry Plate at Doncaster and then retired after 15 years as a jockey. During that time he rode nearly 100 winners.
Whilst riding for Mrs Sly, newspapers would often joke about the Sly/Bastard combination.
