THE KINGS JOCKEY.
In a reference to the appointment of Joseph Childs as the King's jockey " Audax," writing in Horse and Hound, states that. Guilds has few, if an v. superiors as an ail-round rider, while he s-.iuds especially high iii long-distance races. The English writer adds:— " lu the latter particularly Childs rides with most splendid judgment, having learned the art in France, where he rode for many years, as, aftor being apprenticed as u boy to T. Jennings at Newmarket and riding here for some time, he migrated to France, and only camo back to England to ride regularly when tho war broke out. Childs won the Two Thousand Guineas on Gainsborough and the New Derby and September Stakes on the same horse for Lady James Douglas in 1918. Two years previously he had secured the New Derby and Nov; Oaks for Sir Edward Ilulton on Fjtinella, and ho has threo times won the On' at Epsom, viz., on M. J. Prat's Mirska, Lady 'DomcVi' Bayucl*. and Mr. Watson's Love in Idleness. Childs also won the Doncaster St. Leger on Polemarch for Lord Londonderry.''
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18897, 20 December 1924, Page 15
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