Philip Hughes
Philip Hughes
Article by Alan Trout
Article by Alan Trout
Philip Hughes had six wins under National Hunt rules in the 1990s. He started out as a conditional jockey with Paul Nicholls and it was on his Salcombe Harbour that he had his first success when the eight-year-old beat Sikera Spy by 12 lengths to land the Abberley Conditional Jockeys’ Handicap Chase at Worcester on February 12, 1992
Philip Hughes had six wins under National Hunt rules in the 1990s. He started out as a conditional jockey with Paul Nicholls and it was on his Salcombe Harbour that he had his first success when the eight-year-old beat Sikera Spy by 12 lengths to land the Abberley Conditional Jockeys’ Handicap Chase at Worcester on February 12, 1992
Five days later he recorded his second victory when Lucky Crisis took the New Cross N.H. Flat Race on the all-weather at Southwell, scoring by 15 lengths. The following week he returned to the same Nottinghamshire course and surface to take the Pleasey Vale N.H. Flat Race by 12 lengths on the four-year-old James The First, having taken the lead entering the straight. He recorded a fourth win within 30 days when Va Lute finished four lengths clear at the end of the Middleton Aggregates Handicap Hurdle at Fakenham on March 13.
Five days later he recorded his second victory when Lucky Crisis took the New Cross N.H. Flat Race on the all-weather at Southwell, scoring by 15 lengths. The following week he returned to the same Nottinghamshire course and surface to take the Pleasey Vale N.H. Flat Race by 12 lengths on the four-year-old James The First, having taken the lead entering the straight. He recorded a fourth win within 30 days when Va Lute finished four lengths clear at the end of the Middleton Aggregates Handicap Hurdle at Fakenham on March 13.
Despite having made such a promising start, there was then a gap of over three years before he visited the winner’s enclosure again. By that time he was riding for Norman Babbage, and it was on his Will It Last that he won the Thyme Novices’ Hurdle (Division 2) at Hereford on December 20, 1994.
Despite having made such a promising start, there was then a gap of over three years before he visited the winner’s enclosure again. By that time he was riding for Norman Babbage, and it was on his Will It Last that he won the Thyme Novices’ Hurdle (Division 2) at Hereford on December 20, 1994.
That was his sole success in two dozen rides during the season, but he did manage one more win when Fairy Park, trained by Henry Oliver, beat three rivals in the Rose County Novices’ Handicap Hurdle at Southwell on August 28, 1995, the ten-year-old needing to be driven out to beat Rocharisare by a length and a quarter.
That was his sole success in two dozen rides during the season, but he did manage one more win when Fairy Park, trained by Henry Oliver, beat three rivals in the Rose County Novices’ Handicap Hurdle at Southwell on August 28, 1995, the ten-year-old needing to be driven out to beat Rocharisare by a length and a quarter.
Philip Hughes’ winners were, in chronological order:
Philip Hughes’ winners were, in chronological order:
1. Salcombe Harbour, Worcester, February 12, 1992
1. Salcombe Harbour, Worcester, February 12, 1992
2. Lucky Crisis, Southwell, February 17, 1992
2. Lucky Crisis, Southwell, February 17, 1992
3. James The First, Southwell, February 24, 1992
3. James The First, Southwell, February 24, 1992
4. Va Lute, Fakenham, March 13, 1992
4. Va Lute, Fakenham, March 13, 1992
5. Will It Last, Hereford, December 20, 1994
5. Will It Last, Hereford, December 20, 1994
6. Fairy Park, Southwell, August 28, 1995
6. Fairy Park, Southwell, August 28, 1995
