Alan Yeomans, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian jockey, horse trainer and swimmer with paraplegia
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About Alan Yeomans
- Alan Yeomans (8 June 1938 – 16 June 2004) was an Australian jockey, horse racing trainer and swimmer.
- He began working with horses at the age of 17 and rode over 200 winners in his short career as a jockey.
- Yeomans became a paraplegic at the age of 21 due to a horse racing accident and took up swimming as part of his rehabilitation, winning three medals at the 1962 Commonwealth Paraplegic Games in Perth.
- In 1967, he became the first licensed paraplegic horse trainer in Australia, and worked in that profession until 1997.
- He died in 2004 at the age of 66.
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