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Timothy James Murphy (born 20 August 1974 in County Kildare, Ireland), known as Timmy Murphy, is a retired Irish jockey who competed mostly in National Hunt racing. A multiple Grade 1-winning rider, he is best known for his victory on Comply or Die in the 2008 Grand National. He overcame problems with alcohol, which had led to a prison sentence after a drunken incident on a plane in 2002, to resume a successful career and win the 2005 jump jockey of the year Lester Award. He won the Irish Grand National on Davids Lad in 2001, and the Scottish Grand National on Merigo in 2010 and 2012. He had eight winners at the Cheltenham Festival, the first in 1997 and the last in 2009. He recorded his 1000th win in Britain in 2010. Following an injury in a fall in 2010 he was unable to regain his licence to ride over jumps and switched codes, riding on the flat from 2015 until 2018, when he retired from race riding. More about Timmy Murphy

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thumbnailTIMMY MURPHY COMPLY OR DIE 2008 GRAND NATIONAL SIGNED PRINT £5.49logo
thumbnailTIMMY MURPHY COMPLY OR DIE HAND SIGNED 12X8 PHOTO 2008 GRAND NATIONAL£26.99logo
thumbnailTIMMY MURPHY HAND SIGNED 12X8 PHOTO - COMPLY OR DIE - GRAND NATIONAL AUTOGRAPH£14.99logo
Murphy was born on 20 August 1974 on Newberry Stud near Kilcullen where his father, former point-to-point jockey James Murphy, was stud groom. He grew up on the stud farm with brother Brian and learnt to ride as a young child. He went hunting and competed in gymkhanas and pony racing with his pony, Bluebell.: 13.15.23  At the age of fourteen he started riding out for trainer Noel Chance on the Curragh at weekends and during school holidays and began full-time work at the yard on leaving school shortly before his sixteenth birthday.: 36,42  He moved to the yard of trainer Dermot Weld and then to that of Declan Gillespie, but he was sacked from both yards and, apart from riding in a bumper and a point-to-point on horses owned by his father, had yet to ride on a racecourse.: 42,45,52-3  It was when he was working for trainer Mick Halford that he started to get rides with an amateur licence, winning his first point-to-point in 1993 on Gayloire at Kilmuckridge.: 65  After a stint with Michael Hourigan in Patrickswell, which brought in more point-to-point winners and a first bumper winner with The Real Article at Puchestown in 1994, Murphy moved to England in 1995.: 83, 92  He turned professional later that year while working at the yard of trainer Kim Bailey in Lambourn, Berkshire.: 100

Murphy rode 26 winners during his first season in England.: 109  In late 1996 he lost his job with Bailey, due to his drinking which left him unable to get up in the morning. He rode as a freelance for the rest of the 1996/97 season, riding 28 winners including his first Cheltenham Festival winner in March 1997 on Terao in the Mildmay of Flete Challenge Cup.: 115-6  At the beginning of the 1997/98 season he was offered the job of first stable jockey to trainer Paul Nicholls. The job involved only occasional work riding in the mornings, so Murphy's timekeeping was not a problem.: 119  He rode 60 winners that season, in spite of a total of 52 days' suspension for use of the whip, but lost his job in November 1998, due mainly to his lack of communication with owners.: 135  He was soon offered a job riding for owner Wally Sturt, whose horses were trained by Jim Old, and rode his second Cheltenham Festival winner in 1999 on Sturt's Sir Talbot in the Vincent O'Brien County Hurdle.: 140,145  He finished the season on 73 winners.: 146 Read even more about Timmy Murphy at Wikipedia

Traded items with a signature of Timmy Murphy

The most expensive item with a signature of Timmy Murphy (Timmy Murphy Hand Signed Comply Or Die Photo Display Framed.) was sold in November 2015 for £64.99 while the cheapest item (Timmy Murphy Hand Signed Photo Comply or Die 6x4 Rare.) found a new owner for £0.99 in October 2013. The month with the most items sold (3) was February 2021 with an average selling price of £14.99 for an autographed item of Timmy Murphy. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in November 2015 with £64.99 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £0.99 was October 2013. In average, an autographed item from Timmy Murphy is worth £4.99.

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thumbnailAuthentic Worn Signed Riding Gloves Grand National Winning Jockey Timmy Murphy £45.00logo
thumbnailMounted Photograph Signed Timmy Murphy Comply Or Die Grand National Winner 2008 £9.99logo
thumbnailTIMMY MURPHY AND LIAM TREADWELL HAND SIGNED 12X8 PHOTO - GRAND NATIONAL.£29.99logo
thumbnailTIMMY MURPHY COMPLY OR DIE PERSONALLY SIGNED 12X8 PHOTO 2008 GRAND NATIONAL£3.15logo
thumbnailTIMMY MURPHY HAND SIGNED 12X8 PHOTO - COMPLY OR DIE - GRAND NATIONAL AUTOGRAPH 1£14.99logo
thumbnailTIMMY MURPHY HAND SIGNED 12X8 PHOTO - COMPLY OR DIE - GRAND NATIONAL AUTOGRAPH 2£14.99logo
thumbnailTIMMY MURPHY HAND SIGNED 12X8 PHOTO - HORSE RACING AUTOGRAPH.£14.99logo
thumbnailtimmy murphy jockey signed photo£1.00logo
thumbnailTimmy Murphy Original Hand SIGNED 10x8 photo£3.99logo
thumbnailTIMMY MURPHY SIGNED PHOTO£1.99logo