Harry Beasley Senior was both the jockey and trainer of the 1891 Grand National winner Come Away.
Roddy Owen, the rider of the runner-up, Cloister, afterwards threatened to set about Harry for not allowing him up on the rails during the race.
Richard Marsh, Cloister's trainer, restrained Owen saying, 'I wouldn't do that, Roddy. You may come second again.'
He rode his first winner on Straffan in a hunter chase at Baldoyle in 1876.
Harry was an incredible 73 years old when he rode in his last steeplechase at Punchestown and a record-setting 83 years old when he rode his own filly Mollie in Baldoyle's Corinthian Plate.
Harry Senior also rode in the 1886 Grand National, coming second on Too Good - a horse named by the Empress of Austria.
Christened Henry Herbert Beasley but always known as Harry, he was the second of five sons of Joseph Beasley of Athy, Co. Kildare.He died on October 19. 1939, aged 89. He left £588.
Harry's big wins include:
1880: Irish Grand National - Controller
1880: Grand Sefton Chase - Jupiter Tonans
1881: Grand Sefton Chase - Lord Chancellor
1882: Champion Chase - Zitella
1883: Champion Chase - Too Good
1883: Grand Sefton Chase - Zitella
1883: Great Metropolitan Chase - Sugar Plum
1883: Grand Steeplechase de Paris - Too Good
1885: Grand Sefton Chase - St George
1889: Irish Grand National - The Citadel
1890: Grand Steeplechase de Paris - Royal Meath
1891: Grand National - Come Away
His Grand National mounts were as follows:
1879: Turco - Pulled up
1880: Woodbrook - Fifth
1881: Fairwind - Refused
1882: Unitarian - Pulled up
1883: Unitarian - Third
1884: Frigate - Second
1885: Frigate - Second
1886: Too Good - Second
1887: Too Good - Broke down
1888: Usher - Fell
1889: Battle Royal - Pulled up
1891: Come Away - Won
1892: Billee Taylor - Bolted
Harry Beasley's first ever winner: Straffan at Baldoyle at Baldoyle, Tuesday April 4, 1876