George Crichton
Article by Alan Trout
George Crichton was apprenticed to Walter Earl and rode on the Flat without success in both 1932 and 1933. He subsequently had two winners over hurdles for Newmarket trainer Ryan Jarvis in the late 1940s.
His first success was on the four-year-old Kitty Brook, who beat 17 rivals to land the Ashton Novices’ Hurdle (Division 1) at Haydock Park on February 7, 1948. George had been aboard the filly when she finished second on her racecourse debut at Sandown Park 15 days earlier. He kept the ride for her next, more important assignment, running in a division of the Gloucestershire Hurdle at Cheltenham’s National Hunt meeting. They finished unplaced that day and Kitty Brook changed hands soon after to be trained by Jack Bissill.
George rode his second, and final winner, at Folkestone on September 30, 1948, when taking the Ashford Four-Year-Old Hurdle on Amoril, beating Agramanate III, the mount of Bryan Marshall, by five lengths. It was Amoril’s first race under National Hunt rules but he fell in two subsequent outings, the first of them with George on board.
He did not renew his licence the following season.
George Crichton's first win came on Kitty Brook at Haydock.
Amoril, George's second winner.
