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Michael W. Dickinson born 3 February in Yorkshire , England is a retired Champion Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. He is perhaps most remembered for his extraordinary feat of training the first five finishers in the Cheltenham Gold Cup ,who were Bregawn 1st, Captain John 2nd, Wayward Lad 3rd, Silver Buck 4th, and Ashley House 5th. He also trained a record 12 winners on Boxing Day in Having been educated at Rossall School , Dickinson was an amateur champion rider before becoming a professional jockey for 10 years.

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His rides included a Classic winner, Boucher. Dickinson got his trainer's licence in , [ 1 ] taking over his parents' stables. He trained at Dunkeswick near Harewood in Yorkshire. Michael Dickinson is perhaps most famous for his extraordinary feat of training the first five in the Cheltenham Gold Cup. In , Dickinson switched from National Hunt racing to flat racing , [ 1 ] to train for Robert Sangster , before emigrating to Maryland in the U.

In , he was elected to the British Steeplechasing Hall of Fame and inducted on its opening in Dickinson's most acclaimed flat training feat came with Da Hoss. He trained the horse to win the and Breeders' Cup Mile despite the horse only having had one race in between, owing to injury.

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On 13 November , Michael Dickinson announced that he would not apply for a trainer's licence in , in order to devote his time to his business of synthetic racetrack surfacing known as Tapeta Footings. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history.