Adam Tannock

Scottish National Hunt jockey Adam Tannock was based with Ayr trainer John McGuigan and had his first ride in public when finishing unplaced on a horse named Langside in a selling hurdle at Perth on September 27, 1924. Langside also provided him with his first win, six months later, landing the Egerton Handicap Hurdle at Manchester on March 6, 1925.

The best horse rode was the McGuigan-trained Creebrae, with whom he built up a successful partnership. Having won a handicap hurdle at Manchester on Easter Monday 1926, they graduated to fences and won at Haydock park in February 1928.

Adam lost the right to claim an allowance when Creebrae gave him his fifteenth success by winning the Cramock Handicap Chase at Kelso on September 27, 1928. They won again at Nottingham in October and followed up in November by landing the Molyneux Chase over the Grand National fences. The pair went on to win the valuable Five Hundred Chase at Manchester on Easter Monday 1929.

As well as those two high profile victories, that 1928/29 campaign also proved to be Adam’s most successful numerically with a score of nine. The following season, Adam and Creebrae teamed up to win the Perthshire Handicap Chase in September, that being their last success together.

He had his sole Grand National mount in 1930 on 100-1 outsider Gosling, who refused on the first circuit. They were reunited four weeks later in the Scottish Grand National but were among the fallers.

Sadly, his career was compromised by the outbreak of World War Two. Having ridden under NH rules until May 1939, he did not ride again until April 1947.

Adam rode a total of 27 winners during his career, the last of them on Craighall in the Tay Handicap Hurdle on September 24, 1947, the same fixture at which he had ridden in public for the first time 23 years earlier. He had his final mount on Loch Thrifty in the Garnock Hurdle at Bogside on April 9, 1949, finishing tenth of the twelve finishers.