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Albert Wing
Albert Wing.
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Albert Wing,
Mornington Albert Wing, born 1922,
apprentice jockey,
see "Young Jockeys in the News", Irish Independent, October 29, 1940,
he must be the son who worked for the trainer Harry Wragg,
the above 1940 article says he is apprenticed to the owner Roderic More O'Ferrall (born 1903) who later in 1962 won the 1,000 Guineas with the trainer Harry Wragg,
see MORE O'FERRALL in [Burkes Irish, 1976],
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he was in charge of "Le Pretendant", owned by Winston Churchill, entered in 1956 "Washington International" race, see Irish Independent, November 12, 1956,
he must be "Albert Wing" listed as "one of the stable's head men" for the English horse "Niksar" entered in the 1965 Epsom Derby, see Irish Independent, June 1, 1965,
note "Niksar" won the 1965 2000 Guineas, owned by Wilfred Harvey, trained by Walter Nightingall,
he died shortly after 1974, of heart attack,
had issue:
- Martine Wing.
