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Aubery Brabazon (7 January 1920 – 30 September 1996) was an Irish jockey and horsetrainer.

Family
Brabazon's father, Cecil, was a sucessful trainer who in his youth rode as an amateur for 14 years. The pinnacle of his career as an amateur jockey came in 1920 when he won the National Hunt Steeplechase aboard Prud'homme at Cheltenham. He trained the winner of two Irish Grand Nationals with Pontet (1937) and Jack Chaucer (1940). In 1941 St Martin won the Galway Plate. On the flat he captured the 1948 Irish St Leger with Beau Sabreur. His uncle Leslie was Irish Champion Ametuer from 1910 till 1913. In 1913 he was Champion Jockey.

Flat
In 1948 Brabazon rode Masaka to win the Irish Oaks for the Aga Khan,he later recounted how "The Aga was not at the Curragh so when Masaka beat the Aly Khan's Amina by a length, the Aly Khan still had to lead in the winner. Since he'd had £500 on Amina he was muttering a few unrepeatables under his breath as he tried to smile for the photographers." In 1950 he captured the Irish 2,000 Guineas on Mighty Ocean.

Trainer
Brabazon began training in 1961.His most sucessful horse was  My Kuda who won the  Ulster Derby in 1966 and was placed at Royal Ascot and in the Goodwood Cup. He was a director of the Curragh Bloodstock Agency. In 1983 became an honorary member of the Irish National Hunt Steeple-chase Committee.

Category:1920 birthsCategory:1996 deaths