Description
Hardly A Jockey
John Hislop
First Published 1993
Hardback in a dust jacket
9 1/2″ X 6 1/4, 162 pages + index
Illustrated with b+w photographs
Hislop’s last book
SCARCE IN HARDBACK
John Leslie Hislop was born in Quetta, India, on December 12, 1911, and rode his first winner at Bungay on April 18, 1935.
During the war, he served with distinction in the Sussex Yeomanry.
As a jockey he partnered National Spirit who later won two Champion Hurdles.
In the 1947 Grand National he finished third on the 33-1 chance Kami He became the racing correspondent for the Observer, where he stayed for 16 years before moving to the News of the World.
He later went on to become breeding correspondent for the Sporting Chronicle, then The Sporting Life.
Hislop moved to East Woodhay, near Newbury, where he established a small stud.
By far and away his greatest success was to breed the brilliant Brigadier Gerard, one of the greatest flat horses of all time.
John Hislop died on February 22, 1994 aged 82.
