Richards, Gordon Waugh

Richards, Gordon Waugh
▪ 1999

      British racehorse trainer who in 32 years was credited with some 2,000 steeplechase winners; one of his most memorable was the popular One Man, which captured a number of important races but was killed in a fall the day before the 1998 Grand National (b. Sept. 7, 1930, Bath, Eng.—d. Sept. 29, 1998, Carlisle, Eng.).

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