Stephen Richardson

Stephen Richardson

Article by Alan Trout

Stephen Peter Richardson did not have that many rides under National Hunt rules but he did win three races. A conditional with Bill Haigh, his first success was on the all-weather at Southwell on November 22, 1989, when Arctic Oats led with over a furlong left to run and finished ten lengths clear of Hunmanby Gap at the end of the Macbeth N.H. Flat Race.

Seventeen days later, the pair were involved in a much tighter finish when they dead-heated for first place in the Doncaster N.H. Flat Race, sharing the prize with Stuart Turner on Cleasby Hill.

It was almost a year before Stephen’s third, and final, victory, which came at Leicester on December 4, 1990, when Adeline Lynn, trained by Nigel Tinkler, narrowly got the better of a prolonged duel to win the Christmas Conditional Jockeys’ Selling Hurdle. It was the only time he rode the four-year-old. He had his last ride later that season.

Stephen Richardson’s winners were, in chronological order:

1. Arctic Oats, Southwell, November 22, 1989

2. Arctic Oats, Doncaster, December 9, 1989

3. Adeline Lynn, Leicester, December 4, 1990