The Archive · 1937

JOCKEY REACHES A DOUBLE 'CENTURY

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London, Nov. 7.

Gordon Richards, the' champion Jockey, rode his 200th winner of the seaton'at Windsor yesterday when he won the College Nursery' Handicap on Portoteuille, Last season he rode 177 winners, seems fairly certain now that, barring "accidents, Richards will either beat his own record of 259 winners a season or attain a second best. The other years in which he has passed the 200 winners mark were 1933, when he rode 253, 1034 when he rode 212, and the following season when he had 210 winners—Meuter.

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