Hedley Woodhouse

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Hedley Woodhouse
Occupation Jockey
Born January 23, 1920
Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Died December 1984
Career wins 2,642
Major racing wins
Vanity Handicap (1944)
Hollywood Gold Cup (1944)
Yankee Handicap (1945, 1951)
Comely Stakes (1946, 1961)
Metropolitan Handicap (1949, 1950)
Champagne Stakes (1950, 1953)
Matron Stakes (1950, 1951)
Spinaway Stakes (1950)
Tremont Stakes (1951, 1955)
Jamaica Handicap (1952)
Cowdin Stakes (1953, 1956)
Gotham Stakes (1954, 1957)
Lawrence Realization Stakes (1954)
Travers Stakes (1954, 1956)
Fall Highweight Handicap (1955)
Futurity Stakes (1955)
Laurel Futurity (1955, 1959)
Pimlico Special (1955)
Remsen Stakes (1955)
Toboggan Handicap (1955)
Vosburgh Stakes (1955)
Whitney Handicap (1955)
Coaching Club American Oaks (1956)
Monmouth Oaks (1956)
Withers Stakes (1956, 1960, 1961)
Acorn Stakes (1960)
Oceanport Handicap (1960)
Dwyer Stakes (1961)
Firenze Handicap (1961)
Sorority Stakes (1961)
United Nations Handicap (1967)
Honours
British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame (1979)
Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame (1980)
Significant horses
Happy Issue, Faultless, Fisherman, Sailor
Hedley John Woodhouse (January 23, 1920 - December, 1984) was a Canadian jockey who
won the New York state riding championship in 1953. Born in Vancouver, British
Columbia, he began his racing career there in 1937 at the Lansdowne Park racetrack
as an apprentice with A.C.T. Stock Farm owned by industrialist Austin C. Taylor.
Woodhouse's ability would soon see him racing at tracks along the West Coast of the
United States and in 1944 he rode Happy Issue to victory in the Grade I Vanity
Handicap and Hollywood Gold Cup at Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood,
California.

In 1949, Woodhouse rode the colt Fisherman to a 3rd place finish in the Kentucky
Derby, the best result of his four tries between then and 1957. He rode in the
Preakness Stakes on three occasions, his best finish a 5th in 1951. Racing out of
New York tracks in the first part of the 1950s, Hedley Woodhouse won the 1953 New
York riding championship with 138 victories, and was runner-up on three occasions.

After finishing 7th in the 1954 Kentucky Derby on Fisherman, a colt owned by
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney and trained by Sylvester Veitch, Woodhouse came within
a neck of winning the Belmont Stakes. His 2nd place finish was his best in the
third of the American Triple Crown races.

From being based in New York, Hedley Woodhouse would make his way to the Florida
racing circuit where remarkably at age 50 he won the 1970 jockey title at Tropical
Park in Miami. He retired the following year having won 2,642 races. He was
inducted into the British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame in 1979 and the Canadian
Horse Racing Hall of Fame in 1980

Married to Elsie Woodhouse (1919�1998), their son Robert was also a successful
jockey, capturing a number of important stakes races on the New York circuit.
Hedley and Robert Woodhouse are the only father and son to win the Whitney
Handicap.

Hedley Woodhouse died in 1984.

References[edit]
Hedley Woodhouse at the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame
ask.com

Categories 1920 births1984 deathsAmerican jockeysCanadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame

inducteesCanadian jockeysSportspeople from VancouverCanadian emigrants to the
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