THE KING’S JOCKEY
Fine “Classics” Record Joe Childs, first jockey to His Majesty the King, celebrated his fiftyfirst birthday appropriately on the day that marked the Silver Jubilee of his Royal patron. Childs was born at Chantilly France, and .at seven years of age his father took him to Newmarket, where he was apprenticed to Tom Jennings. At ten years he rode his first winner, Lady Aloha, at the Lincoln Summer Meeting. Childs returned to France in' 1903, but only for twelve months. His great winning record includes every classic race iu England and France, the German Derby, and a fillies’ classic in Germany. His English classic wins have been: Twa Thousand Guineas, Gainsborough and Cameraman; One Thousand Guineas, Scuttle (owned by His Majesty) and Brown Betty; the Derby, Fifinella, Gainsborough, and Coronach; Oaks, Mirska, Fifinella, Bayuda, and Love in Idleness; St. Leger. Gainsborough, Polemarch, Solario, and Coronach. Childs was riding in France when the war broke out in 1914. He returned to England to join up, He began with the Flying Corps and later was with the Second Cavalry Reserve.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 158, 20 June 1935, Page 2
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181THE KING’S JOCKEY Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 158, 20 June 1935, Page 2
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