Tags: Jockey (Horse Racer).
Charles Wood (1856 – 1945) was an English flat racing jockey.He left home aged 11 and became apprentice to Joseph Dawson in Newmarket where he stayed for seven years. He won his first race in 1872 and was Champion Jockey in 1887. He also rode the unbeaten St. Simon in his three year old year when that horse’s usual jockey Fred Archer could no longer make the weight.However Wood was as famous for his behaviour off the track as on it.
