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Show ENGLAND'S CHAMPION I JOCKEY TO RETIRE ! London, Dec 20 Much reeret Is felt hero In racing and sporting circles cir-cles at the news of the early retire ment of Frank Wootton. England's champion Jockey He is only 2o years old and there was without doubt "a bis fture before him. He savs the reason for his retirement is two-fold; one is his excess ve and Increasing weight and the other is a surplus at his bank er'. He thinks either of joining his father in ranching In Australia, where he first saw the light, or starting In as a trainer with Mr. Hulton who runs the Treadwell House stable. He says the betting is on the latter. Wootton's record is a remarkable one. He could ride like a trooper when other lads of his age were struggling how tn spell c-a-t Before he was 10 he had ridden a winner. He posed as a "gentleman jock" In South Africa I and in eight years he rode SS2 winners win-ners the biggest total being 187 in 1911. He topped the Jockey table I four yeara in succession and twice had the best average,- Maher, the ex-American ex-American rider, gaining it on' the other oth-er two occasions. Swynford In the St leger and Perola In the Oaks at Epsom Ep-som are Wootton's sole classic winners win-ners The disappointment of his life was the loss of the Derby on Shogun this year, that horse being disqualified uootton also vson the Grand Prix de Paris on M Fould's Houli In 1912 for which he received $10,000 and $500 for expenses, the biggest fee he ever touched in one race. |