Godfrey Howlett
Newmarket-based Godfrey Holley Howlett was a National Hunt jockey whose career spanned the 1960s, during which time he rode nine winners.
Newmarket-based Godfrey Holley Howlett was a National Hunt jockey whose career spanned the 1960s, during which time he rode nine winners.
He scored his first success on Harvey Leader’s Princess Sobranie in division two of the Knowle Maiden Hurdle at Birmingham on January 15, 1962. He followed up on her at Kempton nine days later. His third win came on novice chaser Bones in a dead-heat at Huntingdon on Easter Monday that year, surviving an objection from the rider of the other dead-heater on the ground of bumping and crossing to share the spoils.
He scored his first success on Harvey Leader’s Princess Sobranie in division two of the Knowle Maiden Hurdle at Birmingham on January 15, 1962. He followed up on her at Kempton nine days later. His third win came on novice chaser Bones in a dead-heat at Huntingdon on Easter Monday that year, surviving an objection from the rider of the other dead-heater on the ground of bumping and crossing to share the spoils.
He won again on Princess Sobranie at Huntingdon the following season and notched another Easter Monday winner, this time at West Norfolk Hunt (Fakenham) aboard King’s Daughter in 1963.
He won again on Princess Sobranie at Huntingdon the following season and notched another Easter Monday winner, this time at West Norfolk Hunt (Fakenham) aboard King’s Daughter in 1963.
Having drawn a blank for the next two seasons, Godfrey returned to winning ways with victory on the David Thom-trained Exhorbitant at Ascot on October 28, 1965, getting the better of Stalbridge Colonist, who would go on to beat Arkle in the next year’s Hennessy Gold Cup and finish second in the 1967 Cheltenham Gold Cup. On reflection, that would almost certainly have been the highlight of his career.
Having drawn a blank for the next two seasons, Godfrey returned to winning ways with victory on the David Thom-trained Exhorbitant at Ascot on October 28, 1965, getting the better of Stalbridge Colonist, who would go on to beat Arkle in the next year’s Hennessy Gold Cup and finish second in the 1967 Cheltenham Gold Cup. On reflection, that would almost certainly have been the highlight of his career.
Godfrey rode one more winner that season and none the next. His last two wins were gained on novice hurdler Prospect Pleases five days apart in April 1968. He retired the following season.
Godfrey rode one more winner that season and none the next. His last two wins were gained on novice hurdler Prospect Pleases five days apart in April 1968. He retired the following season.
