FRANK WOOTTON’S LUCK.
An interesting account of that marvellons boy jockey, Frank Wootton, at Home, contains, among others, the fol- : lowing story. It mar bo remembered that some timo ago Wootton was bus- , pended for five weeks, baring his sn»pension he stayed with a well-known owner, riding every day in order to “keep his hand in." "One day, on returning from exorcise, ; a local pack of harriers galloped right across the lawn and into n neighbouring meadow, hot on the heels of their quarry. The excitement was too much for the youthful jockey, who at once started i off at full gallop in pursuit of the hounds. ‘Hi, there, youngster!’ shouted the master. 'What on earth do you mean by riding over my hounds?’ "Pon my word, I,m very sorry, sir, I am indeed,' replied the budding Archer, when a» last he had managed to pull up his hack; hut I was. unlucky, otherwise I should have got the hare.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7016, 3 January 1910, Page 9
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160FRANK WOOTTON’S LUCK. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7016, 3 January 1910, Page 9
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