Bryn Crossley, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Bryn Crossley

Welsh jockey

Date of Birth: 03-Aug-1958

Date of Death: 07-Jan-2018

Profession: jockey

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Bryn Crossley

  • Bryn Gareth Crossley (3 August 1958 – 7 January 2018) was a Welsh jockey who competed in Flat racing.
  • He was British flat racing Champion Apprentice in the 1981 season and rode over 200 winners in total in a career lasting from 1976 to 1993. Crossley was born in Prestatyn and began his career in racing as an apprentice jockey at the stable of Robert Amstrong in Newmarket.
  • He rode his first winner at Yarmouth in 1979.
  • He subsequently worked for Geoff Huffer and was at Huffer's stable when he won the 1981 apprentice championship with 45 winners.
  • He gained his only Group race win when Nepula won the Group 3 Fillies' Mile in 1993.
  • He also gained major handicap victories in the Lincoln Handicap and Old Newton Cup.
  • Crossley retired in 1993 having ridden 222 winners during his career.
  • The best horse he rode was possibly the 1983 Epsom Derby winner, Teenoso, who he partnered in a maiden race at Haydock Park earlier in the 1983 season. Crossley died in January 2018, aged 59, after suffering a seizure at his home in Spain.

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