Fraser Currie

Fraser Currie

James Wallace Fraser Currie, known by his third forename, was apprenticed to Bobby Fairburn at Over Whitlaw Stables, Selkirk. Being the stable’s third jockey behind Johnny Leech and Swanny Haldane meant that opportunities when inevitably limited, but he nonetheless managed one win, two seconds and a third from just five mounts in the 1966/67 season, then one winner and two thirds from a dozen rides in 1967/68.

Both of Fraser’s wins were trained by Bobby Fairburn, his first coming at Hexham on September 24, 1966, when he conjured a strong late run on Primrose League to land the Hewbiggin Novices Hurdle (Division 2). 

Just over a year after that Hexham win, Fraser doubled his score when Findon narrowly beat Mount Brown, ridden by John Enright, by a head in the St Johnstone Handicap Chase at Perth on September 28, 1967. It was Findon’s first run of the season but he failed to win again during the remainder of the campaign. 

Fraser Currie relinquished his licence in May 1969.