GREAT RIDING CAREER

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 128, 26 November 1938, Page 22

GREAT RIDING CAREER

The Australian jockey J. Munro, who recently handed in his licence, was internationally famous as a horseman, for not only was he for many years a leading rider in Australia, but he rode with success in India, France, and Germany. In Australia, Munro, who is an older brother of D. Munro, won nearly every important race in Victoria and New South Wales.

He secured his greatest triumph in the Australian Jockey Club's Spring Meeting of 1928, when he won the Derby on Prince Humphrey, the Epsom Handicap and Craven Plate on Amounis, the Breeders' Plate on Gold Tinge, the Gimcrack Stakes on Malvina, the Sydney Handicap on Statesman, and the Randwick Plate on Bacchus Marsh. This is a record of first-class races at a meeting that has never been matched.

Other successes of Munro's riding career that were outstanding included the following:—Melbourne Cup, Windbag and Statesman; Victoria Derby, Liberal; Williamstown Cup, Amounis; V.R.C. Sires' Produce Stakes, Nedda; Epsom Handicap, Boaste^, Amounis (twice), and Silver Ring; and A.J.C. St. Leger, Windbag. In Germany, Munro was associated chiefly with the stable of Baron Phillip yon Oppenheim; and won the German Derby and other important races on Alba, whom he considered one of the best horses he had ridden, and, whom he compared favourably with Windbag. He said that, fit and well, Alba probably would have won a Melbourne Cup j with 9.0. His. association with New; Zealand-bred horses was extended in India to winning mounts on Heremia;,. and Kahapa, securing the Governor's?? Cup at Bombay on the latter horse.