Pat Thompson

Pat Thompson

Article by Alan Trout

Patrick Aiden Thompson had nine winners over jumps in the first half of the 1990s. He started out a conditional jockey with Nicky Henderson and it was on his Give Me An Answer that he had his first win when the five-year-old, making his debut under Rules, recorded a comfortable 15-length success in the Grunwick N.H. Flat Race at Hereford on May 15, 1991.

Despite having more than two dozen rides, Pat drew a blank the following season. He then had one in 1993/94 and five in the 1993/94 campaign, four of them in bumpers on horses trained by Jim Old. 

It was for another leading trainer, Robert Alner, that he had his final two victories when the five-year-old Winspit won twice within 22 days at Wincanton, the latter when overcoming several mistakes to land the Whitsbury N.H. Novices’ Hurdle on May 9, 1995 by a length and a quarter. Pat did not renew his licence for the 1995/96 season.

Pat Thompson’s winners were, in chronological order:

1. Give Me An Answer, Hereford, May 15, 1991

2. Just Cracker, Newton Abbot, September 2, 1992

3. Upham Surprise, Newton Abbot, November 16, 1993

4. Thermal Warrior, Uttoxeter, December 18, 1993

5. St. Mellion Fairway, Newbury, January 1, 1994

6. St, Mellion Fairway, Nottingham, February 1, 1994

7. Water Diviner, Huntingdon, April 27, 1994

8. Winspit, Wincanton, April 17, 1995

9. Winspit, Wincanton, May 9, 1995