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AN OLD-TIME ENGLISH JOCKEY DIES. At the advanced age of eighty -four an old-time jockey iii James Covey passed away at Birmingham on Wednesday, March 8. lb- eras unknown to the pre sen! generation of race-goers, and had not ridden for many years, but was in tin- -addle in the "fifties" ami "sixtns." and steered Black Tommy into second place behind Blink Runny for the Derby of ls.-.v. He was only beaten a neck. starting at the forlorn price of Inuii to B. The old man bud a weird experience soon after the outbreak of tin- war. He was then living at Chan tilly. and in September, 1914, in the rush to get away from that place. in company vvitii his daughter, was left behind at Dieppe. He wa-siibsequeiitlv found Wandering ab nit and unable I i give an account of himself, and after spending some time in the hospital at Dieppe, whither he had beer, taken, ultimately reached England in safety. Covey was one of the oldest members of the Order of Foresters in the country, and was attached to the Victor.v Lodge :lt Newmarket Loudon Sportsman.
