Charles Elsey
| Charles Elsey | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Horse trainer |
| Born | 10 December 1882 Baumber, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom |
| Died | 14 February 1966 (aged 83) Malton, Yorkshire |
| Major racing wins | |
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British Classic Race wins: 2000 Guineas (1) 1000 Guineas (2) Epsom Oaks (2) St. Leger Stakes (1) |
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| Racing awards | |
| British flat racing Champion Trainer (1956) | |
| Significant horses | |
| Musidora, Frieze, Nearula, Honeylight, Cantelo. | |
Captain Charles Frederick Elsey CBE MC (10 December 1882 – 14 February 1966) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. The son and father of successful trainers, Elsey was one of the dominant racing figures in the North of England for more than thirty years in a career which lasted from 1911 until 1960. He trained the winners of six classics and numerous major handicaps and was the Champion Trainer in 1956.
Charles Elsey was born in 1882 in Baumber, Lincolnshire, where his father, William Elsey ran a very successful racing stable. Elsey was a heavily-built man, with brown eyes, dark eyebrows and an aquiline nose. He began training in 1911 at the Glasgow House Stable at Middleham, North Yorkshire, but abandoned his career in 1914 on the outbreak of the First World War. He served in the Yorkshire Hussars and the Royal Berkshire Regiment, attaining the rank of Captain and being awarded the Military Cross. After the end of the war, he did not return immediately to racing, spending two years farming in Lincolnshire.
Elsey resumed his training career in 1921 at Clyde House Stable at Ayr in Scotland. He sent out Westmead to win the Ayr Gold Cup in 1924 before moving his base to Highfield Stable in Malton, North Yorkshire in 1926. In the following three decades he established himself as one of the leading trainers in the North of England, achieving particular success in major handicap races, including the Wokingham Stakes, Ebor Handicap, Northumberland Plate, Cesarewitch, Chester Cup and Cambridgeshire Handicap.
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