NOTABLE HORSEMAN

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 153, 26 December 1936, Page 6

NOTABLE HORSEMAN

FOX TURNS TO JRAINING

(From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, November 7.

After nearly thirty years in the front rank among horsemen, Freddie Fox, noted English jockey, has decided to retire at the end of the present English flat-race season. He intends setting up as a trainer and will make a start in his new profession by assisting Captain Gooch at West Usley. For a great many years Fox has heen closely associated with Captain Gooch's stable, and the fact that the trainer has been an invalid since meeting with a serious hunting accident some time ago has influenced Fox in his decision to forsake race-riding. He will be virtually in charge \of the Ilsley establishment, though it is not his present intention to take out a trainer's licence. The arrangement is one that is sure to give satisfaction to Captain Gooch's patrons. Fox was born on February 18, 1887. He was apprenticed to F. C. Pratt, the Lambourn trainer, and 'had his first ride in public—a winner—on Purdysburn at Warwick, in April, 1907. That year he had nineteen successful mounts and he has been well in the limelight in every subsequent season. Except the Oaks Stakes, he has won every race of note in the Calendar. His first classic success was in the 1911 One Thousand Guineas, which he won on Atmah, trained by Fred Pratt. Diolite and Bahram (Two Thousand Guineas), Cameronian and Bahram (Derby), and Firdaussi (St. Leger) were his other classic winners.

Fox would have achieved the distinction of winning the "triple' crown" on Bahram last year but for an accident on the day before the race. Shel-