ON THIS DAY - 8th JANUARY

On this day in 2008 George Thomas Donald Moore OBE died in Sydney.   He was an Australian jockey and thoroughbred horse trainer. He retired from riding in 1971 having won 312 metropolitan stakes and a record 119 Group One races.  His most important win in the UK was the Derby on Royal Palace in 1967.

He then trained racehorses in France, then in Australia and for thirteen seasons in Hong Kong. Between 1973 and 1985, he won the Hong Kong training premiership 11 times.

He won the BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year (1967) and he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1972.