THE LIGHTEST JOCKEY ON RECORD.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 94, 23 April 1877, Page 4

THE LIGHTEST JOCKEY ON RECORD.

In answer to a query, " What was tho weight of the lightest jockey who overrode a race," 'the -editor" of the Field says:— " The lightest jockey we ever -.heard of was Kitchener, and, as the lowest weight at which he rode is the. frequent subject of discussion, we will give the particulars somewhat fully. It is thought by many persons that. Kitchener's lowest weight was when he won tbe Chester Cup on Red Deer. Such, however, is not the fact. On that occasion his bodily weight waß 2at 121bs, aod the saddle, bridle, &c, weighing Ist 21b, made up the weight to 4st, at which the horse was handicapped. Kitchener had ridden at As'cot under the nick name of Tiny four. years previously, and hiß bodily weight was then only 2st lllbs, so tbat Ist 111b dead weight was required to bring bim up to tbe 3st 12!bs at which ha rode*,. :The race was the Workingham Stakes' run on Friday, June 9, 1840, ana the horse was Colonel Wyndbam's chestnut filly by Nonsense out of Shrimp. As this occurred more than a dpzen years before the Field came info existence, we oannot. quote any report of the race from our own pages, but" we find the followiog remarks in the Sporting Magazine of July, 1840, Captain Beecber afforded some amusement by entering from bis establishment little Tiny, who rejoiced in going to scailes at 2st 4lb, with a 61b saddle. He is a good humored lad and bore the yokels' grins very stoically. It was like perching on high one of the large dollsseen in the toyshops in Holborn, safe that here there was life; he, however; rode well, and bids fair to walk up the sleeve of some of the big 'uns.' And Bell's Life of June 21, 1840, contained the following on the same subject: — ' The most amusing feature of this race (Workingham Stakes) was the first appearance of a mite from Captain Beecher's etables, who rejoices in tho cognomen of Tiny, and j ustifies it by being able to go to scales at 2st 7lbs, with a 61b saddle. He rode the Nonsense filly, and although the unprecedented ly low weight of 3st i2lbs, instead of a feather was put on her, she actually carried nearly 2st of dead weight! Tbis beats Little Bell and Johnny Howlett into fits.'"