Jason Weaver (jockey)

Jason Weaver (jockey)

Jason Weaver (1972-) is a former British flat racing jockey who had much of his major success in the mid 1990s. It total Weaver rode more than 1,000 winners in a career which spanned fourteen years. cite web|date=16 February, 2002|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/horse_racing/1824415.stm|title=Weaver quits the saddle|publisher =BBC|accessdate=August 22|accessyear=2008]

Biography

Weaver began his career as a 16-year-old with Luca Cumani and became champion apprentice in 1993 with 60 winners.

Later he moved to Middleham to become a stable jockey to Mark Johnston. He is one of only seven Flat jockeys to have ridden 200 winners in one season, which he accomplished in 1994, a fine year of his career in which he also won the 2,000 Guineas on Mister Baileys. He won the 1995 Ascot Gold Cup with the horse Double Trigger and the 1995 Prix de l'Abbaye de Longchamp on Hever Gold Rose. A year later at Royal Ascot, Weaver won the St. James's Palace Stakes with Bijou d'Inde.

In 2002 Weaver announced his retirement as a jockey at the age of 30, citing problems with keeping his weight down the major issue. However he was keen to stay in the sport, seeing his retirement as a jockey as a way forward in other management and training areas of the sport.

In 2006 however, he announced that he was making a comeback despite a significant weight gain. [cite web|author=McGrath, J.A.|date=7 July, 2006|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/horseracing/2339975/Weaver-comeback.html|title=Weaver comeback|publisher =Daily Telegraph|accessdate=August 22|accessyear=2008]

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