FIRST FEMALE JOCKEY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 65, 9 November 1912, Page 7

FIRST FEMALE JOCKEY.

FIRST RACE A FAILURE

London, November 4

The first female jockey in Vicuna made her appearance at Sunday’s race meeting, hut she was not a success. She was well enough mounted, her horse, in fact, being the favourite for the race in which she was riding, hut notwithstanding this advantage she did not distinguish herself. At the outset of the race the young woman succeeded in beating the flag. She was, of course, promptly brought back, and when the next start took place she was left standing. She soon got going, however, hut never got anywhere -near the leading horses, and finished last.

[Some years ago Miss Hyland, a member of a well-known family of equestrians and circus people, applied for a jockey’s license'in Perth, W./A.. hut the Club refused to issue a license to a woman. Miss Isabella Button used, to ride trotters in Canterbury.]