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Does anyone know if there is a list of these anywhere?Googling the names only gives the top jockeys.Any help much appreciated.
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... Mobile Phone records would be more interesting.
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The Angry Ant 4ft 10in and Lester 5ft 8in.
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I think i read on the brilliant jockeypedia website, that a jockey in the 1880s was only 2ft 7in, and only weighed 3 stone something
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theres a system brewing
im betting its a wind resistance type of system |
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Dambuster - there is a photo in one of my old racing books (Cope's?) captioned "Doug Smith talks to an apprentice" - Doug Smith was not a tall jockey but the apprentice is about belt high and looks about 10. I will try to dig it out. Can't get near 3 stone, but there were loads of apprentices even as late as the early 1960's who could do 5 stone.
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It ought to be reasonably easy to compile a rough list of relative heights from pictures of jockeys entering the parade ring.
I'm not really sure what you'd do with the information but it might be interesting. More useful would be arm and leg length, though you'd think that would favour Black jockeys like, erm, yeah, so maybe not. |
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Tbf you don't see to many black midgets.
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Not that it will be much use to the "system builder" now but the O'Brien brothers are both around 5' 11" and George B is reputedly 6ft.
Brother Zak looked pretty tall at Plumpton on Monday! |
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Fred Archer was 5ft 10ins. That ended badly.
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