Career
Bougoure was a still a boy when he left his home in Dalby, Queensland, to pursue a career as a jockey at racetracks in the Brisbane area. He competed for the last time in Australia in 1952 and the following year accepted a contract to ride in India. Then, in 1954 he spent five months in France before moving to ride in Singapore and Malaysia.
In the late 1950s Bougoure returned to race in Europe where his association with trainer Vincent O"Brien and Paddy Prendergast helped make him one of the top jockeys in Ireland and England during the first half of the 1960s.
Garnet Bougoure returned to Singapore during the second half of the 1960s where he continued to riding until retiring in 1969. He then embarked on a career in training that would last several decades until leaving the sport completely in 1995 at age seventy-three.
Garney Bougoure was a cousin of Doug Bougoure who notably trained Strawberry Road.