Thomas Broom was apprenticed to Jack Robinson at Foxhill. He won the Liverpool Autumn Cup in 1900 on Fabulist and the 1901 Ayr Gold Cup on Caedmon.
He later rode over jumps and worked extensively abroad – in Belgium, Holland, France, Germany and Austria. At the outbreak of the war he returned to England and lived in Stockport.
Considered unfit to fight in the war (he had a broken shoulder), he worked in a munitions factory at Woolwich for a short while before health problems forced him to quit.
July, 1914, found Tom training a half brother to Sunloch on the outskirts of Stockport in order to ride in jumping events at agricultural and horse shows in August.
Tom's eventual fate is not known.
