ON THIS DAY - 20th JANUARY

On this day (January 20th 1968) Charlie Swan (horse trainer) was born.  He was a jockey in the 1980s/90s until he took out a trainer licence in 1998.  He will always be associated with Istabraq as he won the Champions Hurdle 3 times and won 23 races on him.  He rode his first winner aged 15 in 1983 at Naas and won his first Irish jockeys' championship in 1989/90 and retained the title up to and including the 1997/98 season when he became a trainer.