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CARSLAKE S LAST RIDING YEAR LONDON, England. Harry ".Sheff" Wragg, who won his first Derby on Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owens Felstead, entertained hie fellow jockeys at the ,i-ea-dilly Hotel on the night of June 9. During the .speech-making Bernard Cars-lake announced that this was the last season be would ride, and that it was his intention to set up as a trainer next season. Oarslake is an Australian, born at Caul-field in 1887. He never served an apprenticeship, and was taught jockeyship by his father, who was one of the leading trainers in Victoria. His first success in England was on R. H. Utimings The Swagman at the Birmingham Whitsuntide meting in 1906. He has ridden winners in nearly all the important races in this country, but has never won the Derby. lie has won the St. Leger twice, in 1919 on Lord Derbys Keysoe, and in 1924 on the Aga Khans Salmon Trout. He won the Two Thousand Guineas with Maj. D. McCalmonts Tetratema in 1920, and the One Thousand Guineas in 1918 on Lord Derbys Ferry, and in 1922 on B. W. Parrs Silver Urn.
