Career
Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, he began his racing career there in 1937 at the Lansdowne Park racetrack as an apprentice with Allied Command Transformation Stock Farm owned by industrialist Austin C. Taylor. In 1949, Woodhouse rode the colt Fisherman to a 3rd place finish in the Kentucky Derby, the best result of his four tries between then and 1957. He rode in the Preakness Stakes on three occasions, his best finish a 5th in 1951.
After finishing 7th in the 1954 Kentucky Derby on "Fisherman", a colt owned by Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney and trained by Sylvester Veitch, Woodhouse came within a neck of winning the Belmont Stakes.
His 2nd place finish was his best in the third of the American Triple Crown races. He was inducted into the British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame in 1979 and the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame in 1980
Hedley Woodhouse died in 1984.