John Terry
Article by Chris Pitt
Article by Chris Pitt
John Bertram Terry was a successful British apprentice between 1953 and 1957 and later rode in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. He was apprenticed initially to Matt Feakes at Lewes and then to Scotty Pringle and Geoffrey Barling, both of whom trained at Newmarket.
John Bertram Terry was a successful British apprentice between 1953 and 1957 and later rode in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. He was apprenticed initially to Matt Feakes at Lewes and then to Scotty Pringle and Geoffrey Barling, both of whom trained at Newmarket.
He rode his first winner on Campanelle in the Wreatham Apprentices' Handicap at Newmarket on 3 July 1953.
He rode his first winner on Campanelle in the Wreatham Apprentices' Handicap at Newmarket on 3 July 1953.
His 1954 campaign was slow to get going but a Folkestone double on July 19, completed on Feakes’ Master Bob and initiated by Fay’s Harvest for neighbouring Lewes trainer Don Butchers, kick-started a year that was to produce a dozen winners, including Lingfield’s Queen Elizabeth Cup on George Todd’s Gala Performance. He rounded off the season by riding three winners, all for Todd, at Newmarket’s Houghton Meeting in October, including two-year-old Double Red in the Old Nursery Handicap.
His 1954 campaign was slow to get going but a Folkestone double on July 19, completed on Feakes’ Master Bob and initiated by Fay’s Harvest for neighbouring Lewes trainer Don Butchers, kick-started a year that was to produce a dozen winners, including Lingfield’s Queen Elizabeth Cup on George Todd’s Gala Performance. He rounded off the season by riding three winners, all for Todd, at Newmarket’s Houghton Meeting in October, including two-year-old Double Red in the Old Nursery Handicap.
The future looked bright but unfortunately he was unable to maintain the momentum, his winning tally slipping to just three in 1955 and two in each of the last two years of his apprenticeship.
The future looked bright but unfortunately he was unable to maintain the momentum, his winning tally slipping to just three in 1955 and two in each of the last two years of his apprenticeship.
He rode two winners as a fully-fledged jockey, both in 1959 for Worthing trainer Sid Dale. The first of these came on Rosecroft Honey in a three-year-old fillies’ maiden at Newmarket on April 14. The second, his last on British shores, was on another three-year-old maiden filly, Fourth of June, at Lingfield on August 21.
He rode two winners as a fully-fledged jockey, both in 1959 for Worthing trainer Sid Dale. The first of these came on Rosecroft Honey in a three-year-old fillies’ maiden at Newmarket on April 14. The second, his last on British shores, was on another three-year-old maiden filly, Fourth of June, at Lingfield on August 21.
John Terry rode for one more year in Britain before moving his tack to Sweden where he became a successful jockey on the Scandinavian circuit during the 1960s and 70s.
John Terry rode for one more year in Britain before moving his tack to Sweden where he became a successful jockey on the Scandinavian circuit during the 1960s and 70s.