George Beeby (1904–1977) was a British
racehorse
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trainer. He was born in Leicestershire on 6 May 1904, the son of a noted horse dealer, and after a short riding career as an amateur began to train there in 1924. In 1936 he bought Hamilton House at
Compton
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in Berkshire and trained there until his retirement in 1972. For much of his career he concentrated on jumpers but in his later years trained exclusively on the Flat.
Beeby trained two winners of the
Cheltenham Gold Cup
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,
Brendan's Cottage in 1939 and
Silver Fame
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in 1951. Beeby also trained the winner of the 1949
King George VI Chase
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,
Finnure, and the winner of the 1957
Cotswold Chase
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,
Ballyatom. Beeby trained a total of 19 winners at the
Cheltenham Festival
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over the period 1930-5
He retired to
Hampstead Norreys
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and died in a
Reading
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nursing home on 21 September 1977.
British racehorse trainers
1904 births
1977 deaths
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