F. ("FREDDIE") FOX.

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

F. ("FREDDIE") FOX.

drake gave him a bad fajl in a selling event, and for many weeks Fox was in a critical condition. It was thought that the injury would end his riding career, but he has a constitution to match his iron nerve. He pulled round, took a holiday in South Africa, and came back to ride with all his old dash at Lincoln.

Fox has never been troubled by the bugbear of many jockeys—increasing weight. He has been able to scale 7st 41b without wasting, but if he had got into the lOst brigade he would unquestionably have achieved fame, as s cross-country jockey. Few men ride harder to hounds than Fred Fox. His best retainer was that from the Beckhampton stable a few years ago, but the honour of which he was most proud was his subsequent appointment as first jockey to his late Majesty, King George

V. Always high up in the winning list, Fox was champion in 1930. He then rode 129 winners and beat Gordon Richards by one point. Among his 26 winners this season are ; four for King Edward VIII on horses leased to Lord Derby. His last success in the colours was on Fairlead in the Hwfa Williams Memorial Handicap at Sandown Park a fortnight ago. He had some experience of riding on the Continent, and in 1910 he rode in Germany and Austria, where he was attached to the yon Heinberg stable, with which Fred Darling was connected. An imperturbable and brainy jockey, Fox had no superior as a judge of pace,,