Joey Newton
Joey Newton was born in Grantham on August 3, 1956. He will always be associated with the brilliant Credit Call on which he won the Liverpool Foxhunters' twice, in 1975 and 1976.
Credit Call had already won 27 races, including three Horse and Hound Cups and both the Cheltenham and Liverpool Foxhunters, for his former owner Chris Collins. The horse was sold to Joey’s mother, Mrs ‘Urky’ Newton, in 1975, but remained in the care of trainer Arthur Stephenson.
Credit Call won four of his eight races that year, all with Joey on board, including a second Liverpool Foxhunters and a fourth Horse and Hound Gold Cup at Stratford.
Mrs Newton took over as trainer of Credit Call for the 1976 hunter chase campaign. Joey and Credit Call teamed up to win six of their eight starts, including another Liverpool Foxhunters’ Chase again and finished second in the Cheltenham Foxhunters. Their final appearance together was a winning one, in the four-miler at that year’s Cheltenham hunter chase fixture. Credit Card was then given an honourable retirement, the winner of 37 races under National Hunt rules.
Although he won ten races on Credit Call, Joey Newton was not just the lucky recipient of a top-class hunter chaser, for he a was a more than competent amateur rider and scored many victories against professionals, including four on Hopeful Curtis during the 1975/76 campaign, winning hurdle races at Market Rasen, Leicester and Nottingham plus a Huntingdon novice chase. He was also a very successful point-to-point rider, having ridden 110 winners in that sphere, in addition to 45 races under National Hunt rules.
Nowadays a farmer by profession, based in Leicestershire, where he lives with his wife, Emma, he is still very much involved with racing. He has been a racecourse steward since 1986 and is currently a non-executive director of Huntingdon Racecourse. He became a Member of The Jockey Club in 1993.
In 2012 he took on the role of chairman of Racing Welfare, having already been a trustee, and the following year became chairman of the grant-giving charitable trust, The Rank Foundation, of which he had been vice-chairman since 2009.
He is also chairman of an independent British media company, CTVC, which is a role he has held since 2008, having served as a non-executive director since 1992.
Joey Newton
Joey Newton was born in Grantham on August 3, 1956. He will always be associated with the brilliant Credit Call on which he won the Liverpool Foxhunters' twice, in 1975 and 1976.
Credit Call had already won 27 races, including three Horse and Hound Cups and both the Cheltenham and Liverpool Foxhunters, for his former owner Chris Collins. The horse was sold to Joey’s mother, Mrs ‘Urky’ Newton, in 1975, but remained in the care of trainer Arthur Stephenson.
Credit Call won four of his eight races that year, all with Joey on board, including a second Liverpool Foxhunters and a fourth Horse and Hound Gold Cup at Stratford.
Mrs Newton took over as trainer of Credit Call for the 1976 hunter chase campaign. Joey and Credit Call teamed up to win six of their eight starts, including another Liverpool Foxhunters’ Chase again and finished second in the Cheltenham Foxhunters. Their final appearance together was a winning one, in the four-miler at that year’s Cheltenham hunter chase fixture. Credit Card was then given an honourable retirement, the winner of 37 races under National Hunt rules.
Although he won ten races on Credit Call, Joey Newton was not just the lucky recipient of a top-class hunter chaser, for he a was a more than competent amateur rider and scored many victories against professionals, including four on Hopeful Curtis during the 1975/76 campaign, winning hurdle races at Market Rasen, Leicester and Nottingham plus a Huntingdon novice chase. He was also a very successful point-to-point rider, having ridden 110 winners in that sphere, in addition to 45 races under National Hunt rules.
Nowadays a farmer by profession, based in Leicestershire, where he lives with his wife, Emma, he is still very much involved with racing. He has been a racecourse steward since 1986 and is currently a non-executive director of Huntingdon Racecourse. He became a Member of The Jockey Club in 1993.
In 2012 he took on the role of chairman of Racing Welfare, having already been a trustee, and the following year became chairman of the grant-giving charitable trust, The Rank Foundation, of which he had been vice-chairman since 2009.
He is also chairman of an independent British media company, CTVC, which is a role he has held since 2008, having served as a non-executive director since 1992.