2-664-639 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Bookseller, Jockey: G. Richards', 1939. Winner of the 1938 Great Yorkshire Handicap at Doncaster. Sir Gordon Richards (1904- 1986) was the British flat racing Champion Jockey 26 times and is often considered the world's greatest ever jockey. He remains the only flat jockey to have been knighted. From Racehorses & Jockeys, 1938 - A Series of 40. [W. D. & H. O. Wills, Bristol, 1939]