Paddy Vaughan
Downpatrick-born Paddy Vaughan was the son of a plumber. He was apprenticed to Charlie Weld at the Curragh and rode 19 winners on the Flat in Ireland. The best horse he rode there was Courtwell, on whom he won two valuable races in 1965: the Rich Cut Handicap at Leopardstown in May and the Irish Cambridgeshire in October.
Downpatrick-born Paddy Vaughan was the son of a plumber. He was apprenticed to Charlie Weld at the Curragh and rode 19 winners on the Flat in Ireland. The best horse he rode there was Courtwell, on whom he won two valuable races in 1965: the Rich Cut Handicap at Leopardstown in May and the Irish Cambridgeshire in October.
He journeyed to Britain near the end of the 1967/68 National Hunt season and rode his first winner here on Cloretra at Market Rasen on 8 June 1968.
He journeyed to Britain near the end of the 1967/68 National Hunt season and rode his first winner here on Cloretra at Market Rasen on 8 June 1968.
He recorded his biggest success on the Charlie Hall-trained Chancer in Wetherby’s Rowland Meyrick Chase on Boxing Day 1968, one of eight victories in the 1968/69 season.
He recorded his biggest success on the Charlie Hall-trained Chancer in Wetherby’s Rowland Meyrick Chase on Boxing Day 1968, one of eight victories in the 1968/69 season.
In February 1970 he broke his left arm in a 13th fence fall from Parkinson Minor at Nottingham. The fracture proved complicated and Vaughan missed almost two full seasons. He spent seven months at a rehabilitation centre, finally returning to the saddle in 1972, riding for Frank Carr’s Malton stable. He rode three winners from 23 rides in the 1973/74 season but called time on his career the following year.
In February 1970 he broke his left arm in a 13th fence fall from Parkinson Minor at Nottingham. The fracture proved complicated and Vaughan missed almost two full seasons. He spent seven months at a rehabilitation centre, finally returning to the saddle in 1972, riding for Frank Carr’s Malton stable. He rode three winners from 23 rides in the 1973/74 season but called time on his career the following year.
Paddy Vaughan died in September 2010, aged 64.
Paddy Vaughan died in September 2010, aged 64.
Big winners:
Big winners:
1963: Irish Cesarewitch – Arctic Kanda
1963: Irish Cesarewitch – Arctic Kanda
1965: Rich Cut Handicap – Courtwell
1965: Rich Cut Handicap – Courtwell
1965: Irish Cambridgeshire – Courtwell
1965: Irish Cambridgeshire – Courtwell
1968: Rowland Meyrick Chase – Chancer
1968: Rowland Meyrick Chase – Chancer