Michael (Mick) Redmond rode 15 winners under National Hunt rules in England during the 1930s, mostly for Epsom trainers.
Born in 1912, he began his career in his native Ireland, gaining his first victory at The Maze, the local name for Down Royal’s racecourse, on May 9, 1931, when his mount River Thames beat eight rivals to land the Castlereagh Hurdle. That was his sole success in Ireland.
Mick’s English debut came at Folkestone on September 10, 1934, finishing a distant third on Manbar in the Shorncliffe Three-Year-Old Hurdle. He did not get off the mark until the penultimate day of the season, when Strategic won the Dart Vale Selling Handicap Hurdle at Buckfastleigh on Whit Monday, June 10, beating Glitter Mac, the mount of Billy Parvin, by a length.
He rode five winners the following season but that proved to be a career best. He won seven times on the chaser Gold Cup between March 1936 and October 1938, and had his final success at Sandown Park on January 11, 1939, when his mount Dutch Gold dead heated with Hickie, ridden by Harold Malcolm, at the end of the Ripley Handicap Chase.
It was on Gold Cup that he had his final ride when finishing fourth in the Champagne Cup Chase at Fontwell Park on May 29, 1939.
After the war, Mick became travelling head lad for Tommy Carey’s and other stables. He died at Clapham Hospital on December 15, 1960, aged 48.
Mick Redmond’s winners were, in chronological order:
1. River Thames, Down Royal, May 9, 1931
2. Strategic, Buckfastleigh, June 10, 1935
3: Lights Of Westminster, Hawthorn Hill, November 4, 1935
4. Pretty Clean, Gatwick, January 3, 1936
5. Pretty Clean, Gatwick, January 4, 1936
6. Great Bear, Hawthorn Hill, March 3, 1936
7. Great Bear, Lingfield Park, March 7, 1936
8. Gold Cup, Pershore, October 17, 1936.
9. Gold Cup, Torquay, March 30, 1937
10. Hijito, Wye, May 10, 1937
11. Gold Cup, Plumpton, March 16, 1938
12. Gold Cup, Tarporley, April 6, 1938
13. Gold Cup, Buckfastleigh, August 20, 1938
14. Gold Cup, Folkestone, September 5, 1938
15. Gold Cup, Pershore, October 14, 1938
16. Dutch Gold, Sandown Park, January 11, 1939 (dead heat)