Joe Childs
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Joseph Childs was a French-born, British-based flat racing jockey. He won fifteen British Classics in a 35-year career, the last ten years of which were spent as jockey to King George V. He was known
Portrait of Joe Childs (1923) by Sir John Lavery (1856–1941)
Childs, in the royal colours (Gallaher's cigarette card, 1936)
Gainsborough, the horse on which Childs won the Triple Crown
Coronach (horse)
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Coronach was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He was a champion two-year-old who went on to become only the third horse to complete The Derby, Eclipse Stakes and St Leger treble as a three-y
Joe Childs
…his most treasured possession. The 'best race he ever rode' was for the King too – the 1933 Hardwicke Stakes on Limelight. Childs won the 1926 Derby on Coronach for one of his long standing trainers, Fred Darling, one of the few trainers who could handle him. The horse's aristocratic owner was Lord Woolavington…
Coronach in 1926
Ogden's cigarette card depicting Coronach and Lord Woolavington's racing colours from 1926