Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Charlie Swan (born January 20, 1968) is a former top National Hunt jockey in Ireland in the 1990s. He will always be associated with the great Istabraq, on whom he won three Champion Hurdles. He was twice top jockey at the Cheltenham Festival and was champion National Hunt jockey in Ireland for ten consecutive years. He is now a trainer, based in Modreeny near Cloughjordan, County Tipperary.First and only son to Donald Swan, a former British Army Captain, and his wife Teresa, Charlie was named after an ancestor who was the surgeon to the British King 'Bonnie Prince Charlie'.He rode his first winner as a baby-faced fifteen-year-old, on his father’s Final Assault, in a two-year-old maiden at Naas in March 1983, and, after a successful spell as an apprentice, he later turned his attention to the National Hunt scene. He won his first Irish jockeys' championship in 1988/9 and retained the title up to and including the 1997/8 season. He was only deposed as champion Irish rider after deciding to concentrate on his training career. Swan holds the Irish records for the most winners in a season and the most in a calendar year.Away from Cheltenham, numerous big-race winners have come his way, including Ebony Jane in the Irish Grand National and the Whitbread Gold Cup at Sandown Park on Ushers Island and Life Of A Lord."@en }
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- Charlie_Swan_(horse_trainer) abstract "Charlie Swan (born January 20, 1968) is a former top National Hunt jockey in Ireland in the 1990s. He will always be associated with the great Istabraq, on whom he won three Champion Hurdles. He was twice top jockey at the Cheltenham Festival and was champion National Hunt jockey in Ireland for ten consecutive years. He is now a trainer, based in Modreeny near Cloughjordan, County Tipperary.First and only son to Donald Swan, a former British Army Captain, and his wife Teresa, Charlie was named after an ancestor who was the surgeon to the British King 'Bonnie Prince Charlie'.He rode his first winner as a baby-faced fifteen-year-old, on his father’s Final Assault, in a two-year-old maiden at Naas in March 1983, and, after a successful spell as an apprentice, he later turned his attention to the National Hunt scene. He won his first Irish jockeys' championship in 1988/9 and retained the title up to and including the 1997/8 season. He was only deposed as champion Irish rider after deciding to concentrate on his training career. Swan holds the Irish records for the most winners in a season and the most in a calendar year.Away from Cheltenham, numerous big-race winners have come his way, including Ebony Jane in the Irish Grand National and the Whitbread Gold Cup at Sandown Park on Ushers Island and Life Of A Lord.".