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i : 1 ■ ■ 1 ; 1 • • ENGLANDS OLDEST JOCKEY John Faulkner, 100 Years Old, Rode in Races Up to Age of 70 — Raises Large Family. LONDON, England. A little wizened old man with muttonchop whiskers, John Faulkner, the oldest English jockey, celebrated his 100th birthday at Ap-pleford, Berkshire, March 12. He lives in a picturesque cottage surrounded by plowed fields and country lanes, and he still potters about his garden, despite an accident six months ago, when a mule kicked him and broke his thigh. Faulkner has a thousand-and-one interesting reminiscences of the turf in the great days of last century. At one time he had to ride at sixty-three pounds, and he has ridden in every kind of horse race, steeple-; chase, on the flat, hurdles, and at "flapping" meetings. He has ridden in the City and Suburban, the Great Metropolitan and the Cesarewitch 1856. Almost every bone in his body has been broken while riding or training horses. A drunken sailor ran across the course in the first race that he rode in. His horse collided with the mar., and they all went down. The sailor was killed. He rode in the Abingdon races up to the age of 70. He has been twice married, and has had thirty-two children, the eldest being 67 and the youngest 26. Most of his children are connected with horses, either on the turf or on farms. -t __
