Paddy White

Paddy White

Article by Alan Trout

Thomas Patrick White, known as Paddy, rode over jumps for two seasons in Britain in the 1980s and won 14 races.

He had the good fortune to ride as a conditional for leading northern trainer Arthur Stephenson but made an ignominious start by trailing in a well-beaten last on his first ride for him in the Orton Conditional Jockeys’ Handicap Chase at Carlisle on October 24, 1986. After finishing a distant fourth at Sedgefield next time out, the pair made it third time lucky when taking advantage of the fall of the leader Silent Echo three fences from home, coming home clear to land the Fletcher’s Conditional Jockeys’ Handicap Chase at Uttoxeter on November 13, scoring by 15 lengths. 

Paddy added four more wins before the end of the season, then registered nine in 1987/88, beginning with one on each day of Cartmel’s August Bank Holiday fixture. 

His last success came on the final day of the season at Market Rasen when Little Mittens led two flights out and held off the challenge of the favourite Quintana to take the Ray Edmonds Snooker Club Long Distance Handicap Hurdle, winning by a length and a half.  

Paddy White’s winners were, in chronological order:

1. Corker, Uttoxeter, November 13, 1986

2. Nautical Joke, Carlisle, March 13, 1987

3. Samonia, Hexham, May 11, 1987

4. Carlingford Bay, Cartmel, May 27, 1987

5. Samonia, Market Rasen, May 30, 1987

6. Carlingford Bay, Cartmel, August 29, 1987

7. Half Shaft, Cartmel, August 31, 1987

8. Samonia, Perth, October 7, 1987

9. Dante’s Tree, Wetherby, November 24, 1987

10. Impany, Catterick Bridge, January 1, 1988

11. Pitsbaloo, Carlisle, April 2, 1988

12. Pitsbaloo, Sedgefield, May 5, 1988

13. Maw Broom, Southwell, May 9, 1988

14. Little Mittens, Market Rasen, June 4, 1988