At the recent Ayr races, Mr, John Johnstone, viding his own horse, a five-year-old named Spring Blossom, won the Craigie Welter Handicap by two lengths, carrying 10 st. 7 1b. He started' at odds of 74. A. local correspondent writes:—
Mary old residents in China, and in Shanghai in. particular, will Joice to see that one of their erste lo crack. jockeys can still ride winners. though well advanced in the sere and yellow leaf, The event was a welter for gentlemen riders fand included some of the best.
Great Britain,"
'The Times" racing correspondent paid a' very flattering compliment to Mr. Johnstone and those" who re vember the latter in China will be articularly interested in the last paragraph of his remarks, for when he rode in Shanghai for the "John Peel" stable there was no jockey Who kept closer to a pony's neck than Mr, Johnstone. "The extract follows:— een Craigie Weltec Mandicny, a race atone, who ina member'of the Naiional Hunt "Committee, "has ap ie any ears in batik nom Olde Ing in his ative county of Duntn hire, where his father ud grandfather
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