Peter St. Albans, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian jockey
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Place of Birth: Geelong, Victoria, Australia
About Peter St. Albans
- Peter St Albans (1864-1898) is the youngest jockey ever to win the Melbourne Cup.
- He won in 1876 riding Briseis at the recorded age of thirteen (he was actually eleven, eight days short of his twelfth birthday).
- His record is unlikely to be beaten as he rode in the Melbourne Cup when he was under the stated minimum age of thirteen.
- He secured the mount for the three-year-old Briseis after the regular stable jockey could not make the featherweight of 6 stone and 4 pounds (39 kilos).
- Before 75,000 at Flemington Briseis, with St Albans in the saddle, comfortably won by one length in the biggest field of all time.
- "At 4 o'clock the starter released the 33 runners and they swept down the long Flemington straight in a thundering rush.
- Briseis, ridden by what one writer termed a mere child, (in the Cup) captured a rare double, the Victoria Race Club Derby and the Melbourne Cup.
- Shouts and hurrahs were heard, hats were thrown in the air and one excited individual fell on his back in the attempt to do a somersault.
- The boy who rode the winner was carried around the pack and is the hero of the day," reported the Australasian Sketcher in 1876.
- Both Peter St Albans and Briseis have now become racing legends, and Briseis is regarded as one of the greatest mares foaled in Australia.
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