Graham Kelleway
Graham Richard Kelleway had a brief career as a National Hunt jockey in the early 1960s. Based with Market Drayton, Shropshire trainer Roy Whiston, he made the perfect start by winning on his first ride in public, Border Fox, in the Upton (4yo) Maiden Hurdle at Southwell on Monday, June 4, 1962.
Graham Richard Kelleway had a brief career as a National Hunt jockey in the early 1960s. Based with Market Drayton, Shropshire trainer Roy Whiston, he made the perfect start by winning on his first ride in public, Border Fox, in the Upton (4yo) Maiden Hurdle at Southwell on Monday, June 4, 1962.
Sadly, that did not prove to be a portent of greater things to come. He rode Border Fox five times during the 1962/63 season without success, finishing ninth and seventh in a pair of early season Newton Abbot handicap hurdles in August; eleventh at Worcester in December; then twice over the Whitsun bank holiday, falling at Market Rasen on June 1 and trailing in eighth of nine finishers (having led early) in the Draycott Selling Handicap Hurdle at Uttoxeter on Monday, June 3, 1963. On the sole occasion Border Fox won that season, Whiston’s stable jockey Roy Edwards was in the saddle.
Sadly, that did not prove to be a portent of greater things to come. He rode Border Fox five times during the 1962/63 season without success, finishing ninth and seventh in a pair of early season Newton Abbot handicap hurdles in August; eleventh at Worcester in December; then twice over the Whitsun bank holiday, falling at Market Rasen on June 1 and trailing in eighth of nine finishers (having led early) in the Draycott Selling Handicap Hurdle at Uttoxeter on Monday, June 3, 1963. On the sole occasion Border Fox won that season, Whiston’s stable jockey Roy Edwards was in the saddle.
Although Graham held a licence for the 1963/64 season, he does not appear to have had any rides. That being the case, the eighth-place finish on Border Fox at Uttoxeter would have been his final one.
Although Graham held a licence for the 1963/64 season, he does not appear to have had any rides. That being the case, the eighth-place finish on Border Fox at Uttoxeter would have been his final one.
It is not known whether he was related to the successful Gold Cup and Champion Hurdle-winning jockey Paul Kelleway.
It is not known whether he was related to the successful Gold Cup and Champion Hurdle-winning jockey Paul Kelleway.
