WOMEN JOCKEYS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 691, 17 November 1933, Page 6

WOMEN JOCKEYS

MISS WALDRON WINS THE ... NEWMARKET TOWN PLATE A HISTORIC RACE London, Oct. 13. Miss Gladys Waldron, daughter of Alderman W. J. Waldr-on, East Fulham, won the famous Town Plate at Newmarket yesterday. The Town Plate is the historic race founded by Charles II. in commemoration of his accession to the throne, and which he directed should "be run on the second Thursday in October for ever." It is the only race in the country in which women jockeys compete with men on equal terms. There was one man in the field on this occasion, Mr. Frank Simpson, who had won the race seventeen times. . The women formed a piquant con- I trast with their only man rival — the | young brunette, Miss Gladvs Wal-

dron; the tall blonde, Miss Clover; the diminutive Miss Madge Hamshaw, the athletic-looking Miss Audrey Bell, and Mrs. Heald, with her cluster of dark curls. The Cup which was to go to the winner was accidentally knocked off the table in the weighing-room by Mrs. Heald before the race. "That means she will win it," said Miss Clover, but Mrs. Heald finished last of all. Miss Waldron's victory was reeeived with a storm of cheering. Her mount was last as the field sped away across the Heath. "That was accordin'g to plan," she said. "He wants to pull all the way, but I kept him | behind until halfway, and then 1 1 went ahead, and never had any doubt j about winning." J Miss Waldron is an exceptionally j keen rider, and has won several jump- j ing competitions in different parts of , the country. , j