Tony Hide

The racing community in Newmarket has lost one of its most popular members with the death of former trainer Tony Hide at the age of 85. Tony Hide's lifelong love of and commitment to racing started in childhood as his father William was a trainer near Ludlow in Shropshire. Both Tony and his elder brother Edward were apprenticed to their father and, while Edward went on to become a multiple Classic-winning rider and 'Cock o' the North' on numerous occasions, Tony's race-riding career (from 1954 to 1968) was less high...