Background
He was born in Bath, Somerset and was apprenticed as a flat jockey to Jack Waugh.
He was born in Bath, Somerset and was apprenticed as a flat jockey to Jack Waugh.
He trained two winners of the Grand National with Lucius in 1978 and Hallo Dandy in 1984. The West. was apparently taken from Waugh"s surname. Becoming too heavy for the flat, he rode as a National Hunt jockey for Ivor Anthony and Johnny Marshall.
His career as a jockey was ended by a fall at Perth Racecourse in which he broke his back.
In 1964 he took out a licence to train, initially at Beadnell, Northumberland before moving to Greystoke Castle stables near Penrith in Cumbria in 1968. He subsequently moved to a new purpose-built stables at Greystoke village in 1988.
