COLONIAL HORSEMEN IN ENGLAND.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVII, Issue 985, 21 January 1909, Page 6

COLONIAL HORSEMEN IN ENGLAND.

According to turf statistics received by the mail, the Sydney boy, F. Wootton, was second on the list of winning jockeys with 129 successes, not 126, as was cabled out previously. D. Maher topped the pole with 139 winning mounts, and W. Higg s was third with 124. During the season Maher had 491 mounts. He rode 91 seconds and 56 thirds, and won in stakes for his patrons £59,388. His longest losing sequence was 17. His percentage of wins was 28.30. Wootton rode more frequently than Maher, having 601 mounts. He was second on 102 occasions, and third on 91. His longest losing sequence was 18. His percentage of wins was 21.46, and the stakes won for his patrons amounted to £33,686. Maher’s record all round was therefore better. ’ Fortune, however, decidedly favoured Maher (writes “Sporting Life”), in the removal by a month’s suspension o' dis formidable rival, that wonderful buy, Frank Wootton, for there can be little doubt but for this the latter would have been at the head of affairs. Stanley Wootton, brother of Frank Wootton, rode three winners out of six mounts; the Sydney apprentice, W. Lea, seven winners out of 91 mounts; W. Evans, another Australian, was once successful out of nine tries; while J. E. Pike rode two winners out of 19 mounts. The New Zealand jockey, L. H. Hewitt, rode 21 winners out of 231 mounts.