Anthony LLoyd

Anthony Lloyd

Article by Alan Trout

Victory on Sentinel in the White Lion Novices’ Hurdle (Division 2) at Chepstow on May 2, 1969, was the only win that Anthony Michael Lloyd achieved during his three-season career.

Based with Dick Price, who trained at Court Farm Stables, Clyro, near Hereford, it was for his boss that Anthony drove the five-year-old Sentinel to win a tight finish, beating Tailor’s Grace, the amount of amateur rider Peter Wills, by a neck, with Bill Shoemark on Quick Polish a head further back in third. 

Earlier that season, Sentinel had been thought good enough to run in a division of the Gloucestershire (now Supreme Novices) Hurdle at Cheltenham’s National Hunt meeting, partnered on that occasion by another of Dick Price’s young jockeys, Clive Davies, but had finished down the field. The horse had been placed just twice in ten starts, both times with Anthony in the saddle, so his Cheltenham mission was an optimistic one, to say the least.  

Sentinel ran once more that season, winning the Charles Vickery Memorial Challenge Cup, a handicap hurdle at Newton Abbot, but Clive Davies was aboard that day. 

Anthony renewed his licence for one more season but had no further success.