Basil Briscoe
{{Short description|British horse trainer}}
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Arthur Basil Briscoe (1903 – 1951) was a British racehorse trainer. The son of William Arthur Briscoe, of Longstowe Hall, Cambridgeshire, and May Matilda Boughey,[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~conqueror/genealogy_html/i102.html#i37351 Descendants of William the Conqueror: Arthur Basil Briscoe] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080411163500/http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~conqueror/genealogy_html/i102.html#i37351 |date=April 11, 2008 }} he was educated at Eton College.[http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/horse_racing/2734173.stm BBC Sport: Six of the Gold Cup best] He ran a mixed stable from the family seat at Longstowe and then Newmarket and was the joint master of the Cambridgeshire Harriers in 1929, based at Bottisham.[http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/CAM/Bottisham/index.html GENUKI: Bottisham]
Golden Miller
Briscoe discovered Golden Miller as an unbroken three-year-old in Ireland[http://observer.guardian.co.uk/osm/story/0,,659014,00.html An Observer Classic: 25 March 1934] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061001233725/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/osm/story/0%2C%2C659014%2C00.html |date=1 October 2006 }} and encouraged Dorothy Paget to buy him. The horse won four consecutive Cheltenham Gold Cups (1932-1935) for Briscoe (and a fifth in 1936) and the 1934 Grand National, but Paget and Briscoe fell out after the 1935 Grand National when Golden Miller, the pre-race favourite, tried to refuse a fence and unseated his jockey.{{Cite web |url=http://www.horseracinghistory.co.uk/hrho/action/viewDocument?id=929 |title=Horseracing History Online: Briscoe, A Basil |access-date=1 November 2008 |archive-date=3 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303234203/http://www.horseracinghistory.co.uk/hrho/action/viewDocument?id=929 |url-status=dead }}[http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/horse_racing/2395677.stm BBC Sport: Chasing greats]
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Category:People educated at Eton College
Category:People from South Cambridgeshire District
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