Alan Yeomans

Alan Yeomans (8 June 1938 – 16 June 2004) was an Australian jockey, horse racing trainer and swimmer. He began working with horses at the age of 17 and rode over 200 winners in his short career as a jockey. Yeomans became a paraplegic at the age of 21 due to a horse racing accident and took up swimming as part of his rehabilitation, winning three medals at the 1962 Commonwealth Paraplegic Games in Perth. In 1967, he became the first licensed paraplegic horse trainer in Australia, and worked in that profession until 1997. He died in 2004 at the age of 66.

Biography Yeomans was born in the Melbourne suburb of Box Hill on 8 June 1938. He left school at the age of 15 to become a carpenter.

On 27 January 1960, when he was aged 21, his horse Silver Whit was involved in a three-horse fall at Pakenham. He was rushed by ambulance to St Vincent's Hospital by police escort and then transferred to the Austin Hospital. He represented Victoria in archery, basketball and tennis in interstate paraplegic competitions. He died at the age of 66 on 16 June 2004 on the Gold Coast.