Brigadier Gerard (horse) the Sussex Stakes and the Lockinge Stakes, and the non-winning racemare, La Paiva, a daughter of Prince Chevalier. On his female side he traced back to the brilliant fillies' Triple Crown winner, Pretty Polly, who was his fifth dam. This beautifully balanced bay colt was named after Arthur Conan Doyle's swashbuckling hero. Brigadier Gerard had good conformation, an excellent temperament and stood 16 hands 2 inches high. Brigadier Gerard was trained during his racing career by Major Dick Hern and ridden in all his races by Joe Mercer. Brigadier Gerard began his two-year-old career on 24 June 1970 in the
Gerard Jones Gerard Jones Gerard Jones (born July 10, 1957) is an American writer, known primarily for his non-fiction work about American culture and media, and his comic book scripting for various publishers. He was sentenced to six years of imprisonment in 2018 for possession of child pornography. Jones was born in Cut Bank, Montana, and raised in the California towns of Los Gatos and Gilroy. From 1983 to 1988, Jones and Will Jacobs were contributors to "National Lampoon" magazine. They also wrote "The Beaver Papers" – a book parodying the TV series "Leave It to Beaver" – and "The Comic Book