STILL GOING AT SIXTY
A report from Engiand states I ihat a jockey, who is 011 the verge | jf 60 y ears, and who has two grandi children, is still riding winners. Hi is Fred Herbert, who will reach three • score years on November 1, and ) got home on a seven to one chance I un Knight's Love, at Hurst Park, in , an event for unraced two-year- • olds. He says that his moimt will j win the Oaks hext year. ' Fred was born in Canada, the j 3on of a Manchester man, and won the Kentucky Derby in 1908. He has headed winning jockeys' lists in America, Canada, Australia and India. He is nicknamed "Brusher," derived from his fearless riding, and it is said that he once went sc close to the rails that he brushed the paint off on his boots.
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Chronicle (Levin), 22 October 1946, Page 6
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