deaths
January 8, 2008
George Moore, Australian jockey and trainer (born 1923)
George Moore (jockey)
George Thomas Donald Moore OBE was an Australian jockey and Thoroughbred horse trainer. He began his career in racing in 1939 in Brisbane where he quickly became one of the top apprentice jockeys and where in 1943 he won the Senior Jockeys' Premiership. He then relocated to Sydney and in 1949 went to work for trainer Tommy J. Smith with whom he would have considerable success.
January 8
January 8 is the eighth day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 357 days remain until the end of the year.