Tony Quinn

National Hunt jockey Anthony (Tony) Quinn was born on November 17, 1965. He was based with Tadcaster trainer Lynn Siddall and rode six winners from 39 mounts as a 7lb claiming conditional during the 1987/88 season.

He rode eight winners in the 1990/91 campaign, five of them trained by Miss Siddall. The first of those was on juvenile hurdler Grey Merlin at Bangor on November 2, 1990. He won back-to-back selling hurdles on Damart at Catterick in November and Ludlow in December.

However, the best horse he rode for Miss Siddall was Master Dancer. Having won a humble Hexham selling hurdle in November, he went on to give Tony his biggest success when springing a 20-1 surprise in the Steel Plate Trial Hurdle at Cheltenham on New Year’s Day 1991.

Tony’s other three winners that term came for different trainers, beginning with Walter Bentley’s handicap hurdler Tharsis at Wetherby on January 11. His next winner was Warriors Code at Southwell on February 4, and his last on Feeling Rosey in the Stanley Thompson Memorial Handicap Hurdle at Sedgefield on May 7, 1991.

Tony had automatically lost his claim his 5lb allowance when reaching the age of 25 in November 1990, which meant it would be a struggle from thereon. He gave up race riding soon after.