Patrick Carey
Patrick Joseph Carey rode five winners under National Hunt rules. His first success was at Wetherby on October 26, 1933 on Wild Thyme in the Tockwith Steeplechase, winning by three lengths from Blackmoore, the mount of top amateur Alec Marsh. The four-year-old had been kept busy; it was already his ninth run of the season.
It was more than two years before Patrick had his second winner, when Red Hillman took the Leckhampton Novices’ Chase at Cheltenham on New Year’s Eve 1935, winning by 15 lengths.
His third win was by far his most important, guiding D’Eyncourt, trained by Frank Brown at Bourton-on-the-Water, to a six-length success in the Hurst Park Grand National Trial on March 14, 1936. Six of those who contested that race lined up alongside him in the Grand National itself 13 days later. One of them. Ego, ridden by the talented amateur Harry Llewellyn, came second, but, tragically, D’Eyncourt suffered a fatal fall when prominent at Valentine’s on the first circuit.
Patrick had two more wins: the Three-Mile Handicap Hurdle at Worcester on April 25 aboard the Frank Brown-trained Flamborough; and, two days later, on Orbia, also trained by Brown, in the Mathon Novices’ Chase at Colwall Park.
On Thursday, 20 August, 1936, Patrick Carey was critically injured in a motor-cycling accident near Evesham. He died from his injuries three days later, aged 24, at Evesham Hospital on Sunday, 23 August.
He was the brother of jumps jockey Thomas F. Carey.
