Breasley, Scobie (1914-2006), an Australian jockey, became a leading rider in Australia and the United Kingdom. In Australia, he won the Caufield Cup five times and the Sydney Cup once. After 1950, when he settled in the United Kingdom, he won many of the world’s richest horse races, including the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, in France, in 1958 and the English Derby, in 1964 and 1966. From 1950 until his retirement in 1968, Breasley rode 2,161 winners in the United Kingdom. He won the British Jockeys’ Championship in 1957, 1961, 1962, and 1963.
Arthur Edward Breasley was born on May 7, 1914, in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia. He began riding in picnic races when he was 12 years old. He became an apprentice rider in 1928 and won his first major race at the age of 16, the 1930 Sydney Metropolitan. Breasley rode 1,091 winners in Australia before he went to the United Kingdom. Beginning in 1955, he rode over 100 winners each year in England from 1955 to 1964. After retiring as a jockey in 1968, he became a successful trainer, winning the Irish Derby in 1972 with the horse Steel Pulse. He trained horses in Australia from 1969 to 1975 and then trained in France and the United States, eventually settling in the West Indies. Breasley died on Dec. 21, 2006.
