{{Short description|British jockey}} {{use British English|date=May 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2014}} {{Infobox horseracing personality |name = Tom Goodisson |image = File:Smolensko crop.jpg |caption = Tom Goodisson on Smolensko c.1813,<br/> by John Nott Sartorius |occupation = Jockey |birth_place = |birth_date = 1782 |death_place = Newmarket, Suffolk |death_date = {{Death year and age|1840|1782}} |career wins = |race = '''British Classic Race wins as jockey:'''<br />Epsom Oaks (1813, 1815)<br/>Epsom Derby (1809, 1813, 1815, 1822)<br/>St Leger Stakes (1823) |awards = |honours = |horses = Barefoot, Minuet, Moses, Music, Pope, Smolensko, Whisker | }}
'''Thomas Goodisson''' (1782–1840) 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 Oaks.{{sfn|Mortimer|Onslow|Willett|1978|p=243}}
Goodisson was only 12 years old when he had his first race ride, on the Duke of Bedford-owned Cub at Newmarket.<ref name=Jockeypedia/> 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.{{sfn|Mortimer|Onslow|Willett|1978|p=243}}<ref name=Jockeypedia/>
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.<ref name=SM0906/> It was said afterwards that Goodisson "rode his horse with great skill and judgement" and "gave great satisfaction to all present."<ref name=SM0906/> 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.<ref name=EpsomMediaGuide/> 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.<ref name=Jockeypedia/>
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.{{sfn|Mortimer|Onslow|Willett|1978|p=243}} He won more big races for the Duke of York than almost any other jockey.<ref name=Jockeypedia/>
After retiring, Goodisson became a breeder of horses. He died at Newmarket in 1840.<ref name=Jockeypedia/>
==Classic race victories== {{flagicon|Great Britain}} '''Great Britain''' * Epsom Oaks – ''Music (1813)'', ''Minuet (1815)'' * Epsom Derby – ''Pope (1809)'', ''Smolensko (1813)'', ''Whisker (1815)'', ''Moses (1822)'' * St. Leger – ''Barefoot (1823)''
==References== <references>
<ref name=EpsomMediaGuide> {{cite journal |title=60 Facts & Figures |url=https://www.thejockeyclub.co.uk/epsom |journal=Epsom 2013 Media Guide |pages=11, 30–32|location=Epsom, Surrey |publisher=Epsom Racecourse |access-date=13 May 2014}} </ref>
<ref name=Jockeypedia> {{cite web|url=https://sites.google.com/site/jockeypedia/goodison-thomas |title=''q.v.'' Tom Goodisson |publisher=Jockeypedia |access-date=13 May 2014}}{{unreliable source?|date=May 2014}} </ref>
<ref name=SM0906> {{cite journal|last=Staff|title=Racing Calendar|journal=Sporting Magazine|date=June 1809|volume=34|pages=27|hdl=2027/nyp.33433066599014?urlappend=%3Bseq=357|url=http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433066599014?urlappend=%3Bseq=357}} </ref>
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==See also== *List of jockeys *List of significant families in British horse racing
==Bibliography== *{{cite book|last1=Mortimer|first1=Roger|last2=Onslow |first2=Richard |last3=Willett |first3=Peter | year=1978 | title=Biographical Encyclopaedia of British Racing | publisher=Macdonald and Jane's |location =London | isbn=0354085360}} *{{cite book |title=The Encyclopaedia of Flat Racing |last1=Wright |first1=Howard |year= 1986 |publisher=Robert Hale |location=London |isbn=0-7090-2639-0 }} <!--Wright encyclo {{sfn|Wright|1986|p=}}-->
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