George moore jockey biography of barack
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George Moore,
By ADRIAN FRAZIER
Yale University Press
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His Father's Funeral and the Birth of
George Moore
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On 15 April , George Henry Moore, Member of Parliament for County Mayo, and father of the novelist suddenly left his family in London and took the mail train from London to Holyhead, the steamer to Kingstown, and another train west as far as Athenry, where, because the service on the northern line to Claremorris was closed for Good Friday, he took a post chaise thirty-five miles north and west, across the bog below the Partry Mountains, and around the upper end of Lough Carra, on the far shore of which stood Moore Hall, atop a wooded hill in the Barony of Carra, the south side of the parish of Ballyhean. Exhausted, he reentered the house in which he had been born, and he never saw his wife and five children again. Within five days of leaving them, he was dead in his own bed. It was not sickness from overwork that brought him h
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As a ung boy growing up on the outskirts of Dublin, I remember constantly being carted off on road trips with my siblings to visit relatives in the West of Ireland. On our sojourns in my mother&#;s parish in County Mayo, we were sometimes taken to see an old ruin which for some reason was considered a hallowed structure among the locals. I didn&#;t really pay too much attention to its history at the time &#; it was just a rickety old house to me. All the same, I did like the tree-lined pathway leading up to it and the fact that it was now apparently a bat sanctuary, spooky and mysterious to an impressionable child. It was many years later before I began to get interested in the ruin for other reasons.
The ruin to which I refer is called Moore Hall, the ancestral home of the Moore family. The Moores were originally English Protestant gentry who married into Irish Catholicism
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'I wasn't the best jockey who rode for Alec, but inom have a lot of happy memories'
Gary Moore, the man who steered Alec Head's fourth and final winner of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe Gold River to success, has recalled the enduring link between the two families.
The son of legendary Australian jockey George Moore, Gary and his elder brother John first travelled to France when their father rode under contract for Head and Prince Aly Khan in the late s, and he owes a major part of his career success to the link.
After attending an international school during George Moore's time in France – his father partnered Saint Crespin to Arc glory in – Gary Moore returned to become apprentice to Head in , and also rode as stable jockey to his daughter Criquette for three years between and , during which time the yard's two greatest champions both ran in the Head family's ownership.
Alec Head first employed Gary Moore's father George as stable jo