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Eric Eldin: the jockey-turned trainer who rode 1,200 winners around the globe

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Eric Eldin: the jockey-turned trainer who rode 1,200 winners around the globe

Eric Eldin has died at the age of 88. He was a Classic-winning jockey from the same generation as Lester Piggott. Eldi won about 1,200 races during his 30-year career in the saddle. His most famous win was Front Row in an Irish 1-000 Guineas in 1968. He won 11 races in 1951, spent six years in India and was apprenticed to Ryan Jarvis in Newmarket. In 1973 he won the Weetabix Wildlife Handicap at Epsom on Knockroe. The horse was trained by Peter Nelson. It was not a very good horse.

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