Terry Greathead
Oxfordshire-based National Hunt jockey Terence Richard Greathead held a licence from 1963 to 1968 but did not succeed in riding a winner.
Oxfordshire-based National Hunt jockey Terence Richard Greathead held a licence from 1963 to 1968 but did not succeed in riding a winner.
He had his first ride in public on Tudor Dale trained at Chipping Norton by Fred Sole, finishing eighth of 20 in a Stratford selling hurdle on November 7, 1963. He rode the horse again in a novice hurdle at Leicester on January 4, 1964 and finished ninth of the 22 runners.
He had his first ride in public on Tudor Dale trained at Chipping Norton by Fred Sole, finishing eighth of 20 in a Stratford selling hurdle on November 7, 1963. He rode the horse again in a novice hurdle at Leicester on January 4, 1964 and finished ninth of the 22 runners.
He then rode maiden hurdler Military Man twice, finishing unplaced at Warwick and eighth at Chepstow.
He then rode maiden hurdler Military Man twice, finishing unplaced at Warwick and eighth at Chepstow.
He had two rides at Hereford on Easter Monday 1964, Military Man and Wooden Soldier but was unplaced on both in divisions one and two of the Novices’ Hurdle. He was reunited with Wooden Soldier at Stratford at the end of April, only to be unseated.
He had two rides at Hereford on Easter Monday 1964, Military Man and Wooden Soldier but was unplaced on both in divisions one and two of the Novices’ Hurdle. He was reunited with Wooden Soldier at Stratford at the end of April, only to be unseated.
He joined local trainer Derek Ancil and had a few rides over the next three seasons without ever making the frame.
He joined local trainer Derek Ancil and had a few rides over the next three seasons without ever making the frame.
The end came on Saturday, January 6, 1968 at Teesside Park (Stockton) on the first weekend of racing since the six-week shutdown of racing caused by the foot and mouth epidemic. Terry came in for a chance ride on Kessingland in the Captain Scattercash Maiden Chase, deputising for Peter Cullis. Of the 16 runners that started for the race, only three completed the course. Six got no further than the first fence. Kessingland was among those to bite the dust there. As Terry later recalled: “He went into the first fence, breasted it and the next thing I remember was lying on the ground and asking who the jockey next to me was. It was Ron Barry. I broke a collarbone in the fall and never rode in another race after that.”
The end came on Saturday, January 6, 1968 at Teesside Park (Stockton) on the first weekend of racing since the six-week shutdown of racing caused by the foot and mouth epidemic. Terry came in for a chance ride on Kessingland in the Captain Scattercash Maiden Chase, deputising for Peter Cullis. Of the 16 runners that started for the race, only three completed the course. Six got no further than the first fence. Kessingland was among those to bite the dust there. As Terry later recalled: “He went into the first fence, breasted it and the next thing I remember was lying on the ground and asking who the jockey next to me was. It was Ron Barry. I broke a collarbone in the fall and never rode in another race after that.”
Two decades later, Terry took out a trainer’s permit, based at Chalford Oaks, near Chipping Norton and trained there from 1988 until 2003. He never had more than four or five horses in his care but enjoyed a fair measure of success, enabling him to visit the winner’s enclosure, something he’d never managed to do in his days as a jump jockey.
Two decades later, Terry took out a trainer’s permit, based at Chalford Oaks, near Chipping Norton and trained there from 1988 until 2003. He never had more than four or five horses in his care but enjoyed a fair measure of success, enabling him to visit the winner’s enclosure, something he’d never managed to do in his days as a jump jockey.