Assessment and Honours
Following the LNER tradition of naming locomotives after winning racehorses, British Railways "Deltic" Diesel locomotive no. D9001 (later no. 55 001) was named St. Paddy after this horse on 7 July 1961, and remained in service until 5 January 1980.
In their book A Century of Champions, John Randall and Tony Morris rated St Paddy an “average” Derby winner and the one hundred and twenty-first best British racehorse of the 20th Century .
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