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d I d b b b b b b i e e e e d d J d d d d d e e e e b d d J d h li i OLDEST JOCKEY IN WORLD LONDON, England. A hundred years of age and still interested a in racing, is the record of John Faulkner, the oldest living jockey in England. He rode e The Dusty Miller in the 1857 Cesarewitch, and was seventy years old when he had his s last mount in a race. The London "Sporting Late" had an inter-tl view with htm last month, and, as with most ;t veterans, there were no men like those of |f the past. "Pacing !" he contempuously ejaculated. "Thats what they call it nowadays, but you U should have known it when I was a lad. "Those were days when jockeys rode like » men. Xow they ride like monkeys, "Ive ridden in every race there was, s steeplechase, on the flat, and at flapping meetings when hunters were our mounts. 1 I rode in the Cesarewitch, the City and Suburban, the Metropolitan, and Lord love you a a thousand more ! "In the old days jockeys were jockeys," said this most emphatic little old man. "We had such world-beaters as that fear-, r- less sticker, John Osborne, tall Sam Rogers, s, plucky Ben Bartholomew, cunning Nat Flat-h ► ," man, the much respected Tom Malcroft, Bob " Basham, a peculiar cove, and Tiny Wells, Clod bless him." John Faulkner married twice, and is the . father of thirty-two children, whose ages 7 range from sixty-seven years down to twenty. *• One of his sons, Walter Faulkner, used to to train for Lady Torrington.
