Horseracing Gallery

The Wettest Derby on Record by The Tout, 1927

The Wettest Derby on record in 1927 with numerous well-known personalities of the turf coping with the flooded course with the help of umbrellas and rowing boats. Includes the jockey M. Bearey, Lord Londonderry, Lord Durham, Lord Glaneley, H. Beasley, C. Smirke, Frank Curzon, Mr A. K. Macomber, Lord Queenborough, Mr Jack Joel, Lord Astor, E. C. Elliott, Sir Abe Bailey, Mr Sol (Solly) Joel, Steve Donoghue, Reg Day, the Aga Khan, Tommy Weston, Lord Carnarvon, Sir Walter Gilbey, Brownie Carslake, Joe Childs, Lord Woolavington, Lord Derby, Mr Jack Hampton, Lord Lonsdale and Mr J. de Rothschild. Date: 1927

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Not a Word! Personalities at the Derby by The Tout

Not a Word! Everyone know this year's Derby winner. What they may be doing just before the race on June 6. Caricatures of notable personalities of the turf drawn by The Tout for The Tatler magazine. Names include, from left to right, Lord Howard de Walden, "The Black Prince", Dawson Waugh, Lord Durham, the Hon. Tom Egerton, Lord Valentia, Fred Darling, Gordon Richards, Victor Gilpin, The Duke of Norfolk, Mr J. A. Dewar, H.H. The Aga Khan, Steve Donoghue and Brownie Carslake, Fred Fox, Mr Tom Walls, Lord Derby, H. H. The Maharaja of Rajpipla, Cecil Boyd-Rochfort and Major Harold Cayzer, Togo Johnstone and Lord Glanely. Date: 1934

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Gordon Richards and his wife at his bungalow in Marlborough

Photograph of the champion jockey, Sir Gordon Richards (5 May 1904 10 November 1986), and his wife, previously Miss Margaret Winckle. He was an English jockey and the British flat racing Champion Jockey 26 times. He is often considered the world's greatest jockey ever and he remains the only flat jockey to have been knighted. The couple married in the spring of 1927 but Richards wanted to keep it a secret until he had ridden his 100th winner that season. The 100th winner came at York, when he won the Convivial Plate on Lord Ellesmere's Tiffin. Date: 1928

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