BRITISH BOYS FOR GRIT
FRANCE WANTS YOUNG JOCKEYS. FROM ENGLAND. Mr. Louis Birne, who was jockey to the late Czar of Russia for eight years, is training boys as jockeys and “exporting” them to foreign countries. He recently received an order for 25 lads, who are required as apprentices at a racing establishment in France. “French owners and trainers,” said Mr. Birne to a Sunday Express representative, “complain that few French boys make good jockeys. They put on weight quickly, and are of no use when they are over 17 years of age. “An English boy of 14 will gain about seven or eight pounds duiing his first year’s riding; the French boy usually gains two stone in this period. “French ti’ainers believe that English boys have more grit and are keener than the boys across the Channel.”
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIV, Issue 3242, 13 December 1930, Page 3
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