Tommy Weston (jockey)

Tommy Weston
Occupation	Jockey
Born	4 February 1902 Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England
Died	21 January 1981 (aged 78) Ely, Cambridgeshire, England
Major racing wins
British Classic Race wins as jockey: 1,000 Guineas 2000 Guineas (2) Epsom Derby (2) Epsom Oaks (2) St Leger Stakes (3)
Racing awards
British flat racing Champion Jockey (1926)
Significant horses
Hyperion, Colorado, Fairway

Thomas "Tommy" Weston (February 1902 - 1981), born Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, was a British horse racing jockey. He was British flat racing Champion Jockey in 1926.

Weston was the son of a railway waggon driver. Through his father, who was a fan of multiple championship winning jockey Steve Donoghue, he developed an interest in the sport of horse racing. Aged 14 and weighing just 4 st 3 lb (26.8 kg), he became apprentice to Middleham trainer Ned McCormack, a stable controlled by a bookmaker.

After demonstrating his ability riding Redhead, winner of the Liverpool Summer Cup, for trainer George Lambton, Lambton recommended Weston to Lord Derby to be his retained jockey. Weston rode for Lord Derby for ten years, winning nine Classics.

These started with a win on Tranquil in the 1923 St. Leger, followed by Sansovino in the 1924 Derby at a muddy Epsom. Two years later he was champion jockey in the year that the rider who would come to dominate the championship for the next thirty years, Gordon Richards, was out for nearly the whole season with illness. He would go on to ride the Horse of the Year in five of the next seven seasons - Colorado (1927), Fairway (1928 and 1929), Gold Cup winner Bosworth (1930) and Hyperion (1933), who would go on to become one of the 20th century's foremost sires.

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