caption death_place death_date race birth_date horses image article_title name occupation
tom nott sartorius goodisson on smolensko c. 1813 , by john newmarket , suffolk 1840 1782 '' '' ' epsom oaks -lrb- 1813 , 1815 -rrb- epsom ` derby -lrb- 1809 , 1813 , 1815 , 1822 -rrb- british st leger stakes -lrb- 1823 -rrb- classic race wins as jockey : 1782 barefoot , smolensko , whisker , minuet , moses , music , pope file : smolensko crop.jpg tom goodisson
 tom goodisson jockey
tom goodisson

thomas `` tom '' goodisson -lrb- 1782 -- 1840 -rrb- was a four times epsom derby winning british jockey .
he was the son of dick goodisson , the jockey who won the first three runnings of the epsom oaks .
goodisson was only 12 years old when he had his first race ride , on the duke of bedford-owned cub at newmarket .
at that age , he was an incredibly lightweight jockey .
in 1795 , he weighed only 4 stone 1 pound when he won a famous 500 guineas match race between the duke of queensberry 's horse , pecker , and benington on the beacon course at newmarket .
on 18 may 1809 , goodisson lined up in the derby on board pope against nine other horses .
from the start , the duke of rutland 's colt salvator took the lead and was the frontrunner until tattenham corner when mr. wilson 's chestnut colt wizard took the lead .
wizard held his position until `` within a few strides of the winning-post '' when goodisson `` made one serve for all '' and took the win from wizard by a neck .
it was said afterwards that goodisson `` rode his horse with great skill and judgement '' and `` gave great satisfaction to all present . ''
a few years later , in 1813 , he won his first oaks riding a filly called music .
that same year he went on to complete the derby/oaks double , winning the derby on the black colt , smolensko , one of only two black horses to have won the derby .
as payment for winning the derby , the horse 's owner , sir charles bunbury gave goodisson a ten pound note .
he insisted that he would have given the jockey more had his bookmaker , a man called brograve , cut his own throat rather than paying out his losses .
goodison would go on to repeat the oaks/derby double in 1815 for another of his retainers , the duke of grafton , on minuet and whisker respectively .
besides bunbury and grafton , his principle patron was the duke of york for whom he won the 1822 derby on moses .
he won more big races for the duke of york than almost any other jockey .
after retiring , goodisson became a breeder of horses .
he died at newmarket in 1840 .
