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Garnet Bougoure (3 March 1923 – 22 November 2008) was an Australian
jockey A jockey is someone who rides horses in horse racing or steeplechase (horse racing), steeplechase racing, primarily as a profession. The word also applies to camel riders in camel racing. The word "jockey" originated from England and was used ...
in
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who was highly successful competing in
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and in
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. Bougoure was a still a boy when he left his home in
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, to pursue a career as a jockey at racetracks in the
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area. In 1945 he won his first major race and went on to win a number of premier events including two editions of the
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. He competed for the last time in Australia in 1952 and the following year accepted a contract to ride in
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. Then, in 1954 he spent five months in
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before moving to ride in
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and
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. At the
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racecourse in
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,
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,
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, he won the 1954 Sultan Gold Vase, repeating as winner in 1958 when he also won the Perak Derby. In 1955, he won the prestigious
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at the
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. In the late 1950s Bougoure returned to race in
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where his association with trainer
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and Paddy Prendergast helped make him one of the top jockeys in
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during the first half of the 1960s. He became the only Australian to lead the jockeys' list in Ireland, accomplishing the feat in 1960. His success in 1963 helped make Prendergast the first Irish-based trainer to ever win the British trainers' title. Bougoure's numerous wins in Ireland include the 1960 and 1963 runnings of the
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and in England he won three of the
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, taking the 1963
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with the filly
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, the 1963
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with
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and in 1964 the
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aboard Pourparler. Garnet Bougoure returned to Singapore during the second half of the 1960s where he continued to riding until retiring in 1969. He then embarked on a career in training that would last several decades until leaving the sport completely in 1995 at age seventy-three. Bougoure returned to Australia to be close to his children and died there in Frankston in 2008. He was predeceased by his wife Margaret Moore, the sister of jockey George Moore, who died in 1983. Garney Bougoure was a cousin of Doug Bougoure who notably trained
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.


References


15 July 1963 ''Sports Illustrated'' article on Garnet Bougoure and Noblesse

Information on Garnet Bougoure at Thomas Crosbie Holdings Archives.tcm.ie
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bougoure, Garnet 1923 births 2008 deaths Australian jockeys Jockeys from Brisbane Singaporean jockeys Singaporean horse trainers People from Dalby, Queensland