A LADY JOCKEY
-Miss May M'Donald, known in New South Wales as "Jockey Jack," offered to fill the place of any jockey enlisting, andi to keep his petition'open till his return. She decided on making (lie offer as the next best thing to her own services on the battlefield being refused. The desire to help her country—as a limn—has been so irresistible that if she could now get away in some unit, or other where she would be among horses she would gladly jump at the chance. For ten years "Jockey jack" has dressed and livwl and worked as a man. Her manners are unt'eigneiily (hose of a man. She follows ths occupation of a horse-trainer, rider, clipper, breaker-in, and teacher of riding. TTer life lias been crammed full of experiences which have been more often bitter than sweet. She has ridden all sorls of horses, from (lie harm-less old pack-horse to the maddest luckjnraper of the Wild West.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 243, 2 July 1918, Page 3
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159A LADY JOCKEY Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 243, 2 July 1918, Page 3
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