Patrick James John Pat Eddery was an Irish flat racing jockey and horse trainer. He rode three winners of the Epsom Derby, and was Champion Jockey on eleven occasions. He is coholder of the record for most title championships as well as wins in the Prix de lArc de Triomphe. He rode the winners of 4,632 British flat races, a figure exceeded only by Sir Gordon Richards.
Eddery was born in south Dublin, at the outskirts of The Curragh racecourse and a native of Newbridge, County Kildare, and his birth was registered in Dublin. He was the fifth child of Jimmy Eddery, a jockey who rode Panaslipper to win the Irish Derby in 1955, and Josephine . His brother, Paul, also went on to become a jockey. He attended Oatlands Primary School in Stillorgan.
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