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Memorial service for Burrough Hill Lad owner Stan Riley

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Memorial service for Burrough Hill Lad owner Stan Riley

Memorial service for Burrough Hill Lad's owner Stan Riley will be held in the village church at Burrow, near Melton Mowbray on December 20. Riley died last month aged 92. Burough Hill Ladd won 17 of his 27 races, all but the first four of them for Jenny Pitman. He won the Welsh National, the Cheltenham Gold Cup, Hennessy Cognac Gold cup and the King George VI Chase in 1983-84.

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