SIR WILLIAM FOX AS A JOCKEY.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3660, 18 September 1880, Page 2

SIR WILLIAM FOX AS A JOCKEY.

The remark made by Mr Levin in th« House that Sir William Fox, though now a strong opponent of horse-racing, has, in his time, not only kept race-horses but donned the silk, hat raised a question as to its absolute correctness. , Mr Levin, however, spoke strictly, by the card, as will be seen from the following particulars furnished us by a correspondent:—The last time that Sir William Fpx performed as a jockey, on Burnbam Water Racecourse, was on the 14th February, 1850, when a bye-day's racing was got up by the Wellington Jockey Club in compliment to Captain Stokes, of H.M.B. Acheron, who was then risking that port with two race horses on board. Mr Fox rode a horse oalled Saddler, belonging, we beliere, to the late Mr Armstrong Mr Bromley, now of H.M. Customs, rode a mare called Lady Eleanor, belonging to Captain Stokes, in the same race, which was over hurdles. The race was won by Mr St. Hill's Harribogene, ridden by Lieutenant Gordon, of the 65th Regiment then quartered in Wellington.