Charlie Elliott (jockey)

Edward Charles Elliott, known as Charlie Elliott, lived from 3 October 1904 to 6 January 1979 and was twice British champion flat racing jockey. Still an apprentice to John Jarvis, he shared his first title with Steve Donoghue in 1923 and won again in 1924 with 106 winners. He won fourteen British Classics, among them the Derby on Call Boy in 1927, on Bois Roussel in 1938 and on Nimbus in 1949, and he rode the first winner of the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, Supreme Court, in 1951. He spent much of his career in France riding for Marcel Boussac, winning the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe on Corrida in 1936 and 1937 and on Caracalla in 1946, and later trained for Boussac. The Racing Post ranked him sixth among the top fifty jockeys of the twentieth century.