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Stringer, Andrew

The son of racehorse owner Jack Stringer, Andrew Paul Stringer was born at Wharfedale on June 25, 1962, and rode his first winner, King's Comet, at Cartmel on May 26, 1979.

Starting out as an amateur, he rode 93 winners including Fabulous in the 1984 Topham Trophy and Tall Order in the 1982 Coral Golden Hurdle Final. He rode a second Cheltenham Festival winner on Hill’s Guard in the 1984 County Hurdle.


Andrew, who had combined riding with running a livery stable at Carlton Hurstwaite, near Thirsk, rode what was to be his last winner on Come-N-Joinus (left) at Carlisle on September 26, 1987. His relatively short career came to an end at Kelso on October 17, 1987, fracturing his skull when his mount Bay Bazaar fell at the fifth flight when in second, bringing two other horses down. The fall left him 95 per cent deaf in his right ear and he was advised not to carry on riding.

The following year Andy took out a trainer’s licence, based at Carlton Hurstwaite, and sent out winners before relinquishing his licence in 1993. He joined Barney Curley as assistant trainer until 2013 when he accepted a similar role with Newmarket trainer James Tate.


Stringer jumping the last on Fabulous when winning the 1984 (Kaltenburg Pils) Topham Trophy. He's the one on the left, nearest camera.
The entrance to Middleton Park House, in Co. Westmeath

Middleton Park House is a 19th-century Georgian country house in Castletown-Geoghegan, County Westmeath

It stands on a gentle hill on a kilometre-long avenue looking towards Lough Ennell. It is a detached six-bay two-storey building with the central two bays slightly projecting from the façade. It has a slate roof and a projecting single-storey limestone Ionic entrance portico. Other features of the house are its under-floor heating system, stone bifurcated staircase leading to the Gallery Landing and three-story-high atrium lantern located in the Main Hall. At one end of the house is a cast-iron conservatory, one of only a few Richard Turner conservatories to be found in Ireland.[1]

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After many years of disrepair, the house was restored in mid-2007 and is opened to the public as a commercial entity specialising in corporate events and private weddings and as a restaurant. This venture closed in 2016,[2] with the house rapidly falling back in to disrepair. Restoration work to return it to use as family home began in 2019 and has been featured on an RTÉ TV series 'Great House Revival' [3]

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History[edit]

  • The following year Andy took out a trainer’s licence, based at Carlton Hurstwaite, and sent out winners before relinquishing his licence in 1993. He joined Barney Curley as assistant trainer until 2013 when he accepted a similar role with Newmarket trainer James Tate.
  • BARNEY CURLEY, a legend among the gambling fraternity and one of racing's foremost political crusaders, has decided to 'pack it all in' through exasperation with the structure of the industry.
  • Barney Curley has been credited with many things in his time but is best known as a professional gambler. He was also a racehorse trainer, a pub owner, the manager of a pop group and an entrepreneur. He tried his luck on the other side of the fence as a.
  • When leading racehorse trainer Paul Nicholls announced that he was splitting from his devoted wife Bridget, she was understandably devastated at having to leave the successful yard she had helped.

Middleton Park House was built c. 1850 by George Boyd-Rochfort, who commissioned architect George Papworth to design it and oversee its construction. Drawings of part of the interior were exhibited by Papworth during the Royal Hibernian Annual Exhibition of 1850.

Bellewing home Yellow Sam. Everyone knows this one and it remains the most outrageous spanking.

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The Victoria Cross-winning soldier George Boyd-Rochfort and his younger brother, racehorse trainer Cecil Boyd-Rochfort, were born at Middleton Park. The house was host to a number of celebrities in the 1930s and 1940s, such as Rita Hayworth (who married Prince Aly Khan in 1949).

The House and estate remained in the Boyd-Rochfort family until the early 1960s when it was sold. Since then it has seen many owners, including gambler Barney Curley who raffled the House in 1986.[1]

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  1. ^ ab'Middleton Park House, Castletown Geoghegan, County Westmeath'. National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Retrieved 13 December 2012.
  2. ^Ryan, Orla (21 March 2016). 'Hotel tells couple 'to make alternative arrangements' for wedding less than two months away'. thejournal.ie. Retrieved 4 March 2021.
  3. ^https://evoke.ie/2020/03/21/showbiz/great-house-revival-finale

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