Tommy Weston (Thomas Weston, born in Dewsbury in February 1902 and died in 1981) was a British flat racing jockey and one of the most successful riders of the years between the wars. He won eleven English Classics, eight of them as stable jockey to the Earl of Derby, including two Derby winners, Sansovino in 1924 and Hyperion in 1933, and he was British champion jockey in 1926. The son of a railway waggon driver, he was apprenticed at fourteen to the Middleham trainer Ned McCormack. His partnership with Lord Derby ended in 1934 without any explanation being given. He served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War, returned to win the 2000 Guineas on Happy Knight in 1946, and retired in 1950, settling in Newmarket.
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