SEVEN YEAR-OLD JOCKEY
.FROAr THE SADDLE TO BTS MOTHER'S LAP. \[r. G. P. Thompson, of Kivby TCnowle, Thirst, who recently died at York, used SI, was in his younger days an amateur jockey, whose greatest achievement was when, ridins .Lord Zetland's Hnrdrada, j he beat Fred Archer on Oxlin by a head. | Mr. Thompson rodo his first winner : Then f-eveii years old. His father, hav- ! ing hackcd his hack against another i wail's yithont any stipulation as to j weight, found to his surprise that a boy j from a racinsr stable and the rider of [ winners was put up 011 the other horse. ; Yonusr Geor;o Thompson was sent for, j < old to "Hold tight, and when they pay I 'Go.' gallop as fast as yoti can for ( home.'" ne obeyed Hie instructions, won | the race, and was handed back to his i mother through the window of the fnm- ; ily carriage.—"Daily Mail."
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3012, 24 February 1917, Page 3
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153SEVEN YEAR-OLD JOCKEY Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3012, 24 February 1917, Page 3
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