BRINGING SADDLE
The successful Australian jockey, J. Johnson, plans to be at Trentham for the next Wellington Cup meeting. He will bring his saddle in the hope of getting mounts.
Johnson rode four winners at Moonee Valley last Saturday. He was the central figure in a controversy about the use of the whip in Melbourne last season. He is not now the free hitter he was when he won the Melbourne Cup on Gatum Gatum but he would make even the most vigorous New Zealand jockeys look almost immobile.
J. B. Cummings has this comment to make about Johnson of those days: “He hits them all over the place, and hits them so often they are frightened to stop. He scares the daylights out of them.”
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31231, 1 December 1966, Page 5
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