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Sorry lf this has been covered before but can anyone help me put together a list of riders who rode under a different name to their real one

eg Howard cole-Kid bodie

many thanks

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Fred Leavis - Arthur Reynolds

Jack Sharp - Jack Smythe

Allen Kilfoyle - Jack Williams

Jack Newlands - Speedy Jack

Bert Gerrish - Herb Peters

 

There was also Johnny Bull who may have been Eric Spencer, but may not...

 

All of them rode at Norwich in the early 1930s. The reason they rode under assumed names was because they were contracted to ride for other clubs (Leavis and Sharp for Wimbledon for example) and Norwich was an unlicensed track.

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Alan Hartley - Bengt Mudegaard

 

There was also a rider named Roy Williams who rode at Berwick and Newtongrange (I think) under another name but I can not remember what it was - help?

Edited by Ian H

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Alan Hartley - Bengt Mudegaard

 

There was also a rider named Roy Williams who rode at Berwick and Newtongrange (I think) under another name but I can not remember what it was - help?

Think it was Bernie Lagrosse.

 

Also Trevor Charley - Trevor Vincent

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Attila Stefani aka 'Mark Frost'

 

Ronnie Genz rode for Exeter in the PL under an alias a few times anybody remember what it was?

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Mick Murphy - John Glass (pre-war Aussie)

 

Ronnie Genz - Reg Neal (in 1964 in the "black" Provincial League)

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Giuseppe Marzotto (tha man behind GM) - Charlie Brown

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Everybody forget Tyburn Gallows? Can't remember his full real name but wasn't it ???? Humphreys ?

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There was also a rider named Roy Williams who rode at Berwick and Newtongrange (I think) under another name but I can not remember what it was - help?

Mark Hall?

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Everybody forget Tyburn Gallows? Can't remember his full real name but wasn't it ???? Humphreys ?

Tyburn Gallows real name was Raymond Humphries he changed it by deed pole as he was the last apprentice hangman in Britain at Tyburn.

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Everybody forget Tyburn Gallows? Can't remember his full real name but wasn't it ???? Humphreys ?

Tyburn Gallows real name was Raymond Humphries he changed it by deed pole as he was the last apprentice hangman in Britain at Tyburn.

What a crazy story:blink: .... cool though B)

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Mark Hall?

 

No Mark Hall was Walter Elliott - allegedly a bank manager who wanted to keep his ID secret from his bosses :unsure:

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There was also a rider named Roy Williams who rode at Berwick and Newtongrange (I think) under another name but I can not remember what it was - help?

 

Think it was Bernie Lagrosse.

 

That rings a bell. Thanks Do you know which was his real name?

 

Did Mark Hall ride second half at Powderhall?

Edited by Ian H

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