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His penchant for winning continued as a trainer in France, Australia, and Hong Kong, in which he won 11 coaching premierships between 1973 and 1985. Moore retired from all types of racing in 1985 and settled down while in the Gold Coast until his Longchamp Bags Clearance demise in Sydney on eight January 2008. An illustrious career as Moore's cannot go unnoticed with many awards coming his way. He was awarded an OBE from the Queen in 1972 and was inducted in to the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1986.



On top of that, Moore was inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame in 2001. The George Moore Medal is presented to the most outstanding jockey in Sydney each and every year. Australia Post dedicated a postage stamp as part of its Australian Legends series to 'Cotton Fingers' in 2007. An amazing two,278 winners throughout the world might be a tough record to beat by any standards. His fame is aware of no bounds, with the highest compliments an Australian jockey can ever obtain currently being, "He rode that like George Moore".



One with the invincible jockeys to blaze the Australian race tracks is none apart from George Thomas Donald Moore OBE, a jockey and Thoroughbred horse trainer who started his profession in 1938 as an apprentice underneath Brisbane trainer Louis Longchamp Handbags Dahl. His extraordinary ability to regulate horses created him get the top out of any horse he saddled, and soon came to be generally known as 'Cotton Fingers'. It wasn't lengthy just before Moore became a leading apprentice jockey, winning the Senior Jockeys' Premiership in 1943. In 1949, he moved over to Sydney to join trainer Tommy J. Smith, which marked the starting of a long and illustrious career that nobody inside the racing fraternity will ever forget.



Moore expanded his horizons in 1950, accepting an invitation from Johnny Longden to ride in the San Diego Handicap with the Del Mar Racetrack. Nevertheless, he continued to become quite possibly the most profitable jockey in Australia all through the 1950s and 1960s. His expertise caught the consideration of Prince Longchamp Bags Aly Khan, which took Moore to Longchamp to win the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in 1959, steering the Prince's horse, Saint Crespin, educated by Alec Head to victory.