Joe Childs

Joseph Childs, born in Chantilly on 6 May 1884 and died on 5 February 1958, was a French-born, British-based flat racing jockey from a racing family, with four jockey brothers, Albert, Arthur, Charles and Henry. He won fifteen British Classics in a 35 year career, the last ten years as jockey to King George V, and was known for a slow, waiting style of riding and for a short temper that often put him at odds with trainers and owners. He started in 1900 as an apprentice to Tom Jennings Jr. at Newmarket, won the Royal Hunt Cup at Royal Ascot in 1901, and rode in France and Germany before returning to Britain. In France he won the Grand Prix de Paris in 1908 on Northeast and in 1909 on Verdun.