Boy Jockey.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 358, 12 February 1937, Page 2

Boy Jockey.

Racing men are astounded at the brilliance of Bruce Hobbs, w~o rode two vlnners as an aihateur on Boxing Day, and on the following Monday received his professional license just as he stepped into the -weighing room at Wolverhampton, where he rode two more winners. He is only 16, and has ridden 11 winners since he scored his first success “over the sticks” in March. Under National Hunt rules anyone who has ridden 10 winners must, apply for a special permit or take \up a professional license. Hobbs is the son of the Lambourn trainer R. Hobbs. He was hunting with the famous Quorn at the age of five, and was only seven when he took two prizes for horsemanship at the International Show at Olympia. There is now reported to be a possibility of his riding Miss Dorothy Paget’s famous steeplechaser, Golden Miller, in the Grand National next March.