OTHER "HECTOR GRAYS"
The Daily Mail" of 6th August gives the following interesting information under the heading of "Other Jockeys":— New Zealand seems quite elated that Hector Gray, who rode for Sir Hueo Lunliffe-Owcn in this country in 1921-22, should create a record by riding 106 winners in a season. Gray, is well over 40. But we are not without our jockeys of forty years and more. Childs, Donoghue Fox, and Carslake are still in the leading ranks, and they are as old as Gray Fox, who rode Yentoi to win the Cesarewitch in 1908,. was champion jockey last season. Donoghue was -ap on Christmas Daisy when the Cambridgeshire was won for the second year in 1910. Of our other leading jockeys T. Weston and H. Wra™ were born in 1902, Gordon Richards in 1904, the same year, as R. - Jones, and Beary was riding in ' Ireland in 1914. In the past our leading jockeys had to give up because'of.weight and not age. Now that weights are on a higher scale we shall find the senior jockeys remaining in the saddle-and ■ maintaining leadership through ability," :
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 60, 8 September 1931, Page 6
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185OTHER "HECTOR GRAYS" Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 60, 8 September 1931, Page 6
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