Flying Childers
During his first season as licensed trainer, FitzGerald won the Norfolk Stakes at the 1986 Royal Ascot meeting with the horse called Sizzling Melody who became a leading sprinter of his generation also winning the Flying Childers Stakes at Doncaster, and the Prix Petit Cuvert at Longchamp as well as being placed in the 1987 William Hill Sprint Championshipat York.