Paul Kelleway

Paul Kelleway (31 August 1940 – 21 April 1999) was a National Hunt jockey who became a trainer of horses on the flat. As a jockey, he won the 1969 Cheltenham Gold Cup and, as a trainer, saddled a number of Group 1 winners.

Kelleway was born in London. He was evacuated on account of World War II to Yorkshire, which became his adopted county. He was apprenticed to Doncaster trainer Eddie Magner, moving to the yard of Harry Wragg in Newmarket after a year. He rode his first winner, Golovine, trained by Wragg, at Haydock in 1955. Becoming too heavy for flat racing, he joined the yard of dual-purpose trainer Ryan Price in Findon, West Sussex. In 1975, he was unseated from Barona at Becher's Brook in the Grand National when fellow jockey Andy Turnell grabbed his arm while falling from his own mount.

After his retirement as a jockey in 1977, Kelleway set up as a trainer of horses on the flat with his wife Gillian at Shalfleet Stables on the Bury Road in Newmarket. He soon achieved success at the highest level when Swiss Maid won the Champion Stakes at Ascot in October 1978. Kelleway had a reputation for achieving success with horses bought cheaply as yearlings. Madame Gay, winner of the 1981 Prix de Diane and runner-up in the 1981 Oaks, was bought for 8,000 guineas and sold for $1.4 million, while Risk Me, winner of the 1987 Prix Jean Prat and Grand Prix de Paris was bought for £20,000 and sold to stud for £1.4 million, having won £300,000 in prize money.

Kelleway retired from training in 1997. He died in Cheam on 21 April 1999.