Freddie Fox (jockey)

Frederick "Freddie" Fox
Occupation	Jockey
Born	1888 Berrington, Shropshire, England
Died	12 December 1945 Frilford, Abingdon, Berkshire, England
Major racing wins
British Classic Race wins as jockey: 1,000 Guineas (1911) 2,000 Guineas (1930, 1935) Epsom Derby (1931, 1935) St Leger Stakes (1932)
Racing awards
British flat racing Champion Jockey (1930)
Significant horses
Bahram

Frederick "Freddie" Sidney Fox (1888–1945), referred to in his retirement as "The Mayor of Wantage" was a British horse racing jockey. He was a British Classic winner in his early twenties, but it wasn't until the last quarter of his thirty-year career that he had his greatest successes. He became the British flat racing Champion Jockey in 1930, making him one of only three jockeys to interrupt Gordon Richards' three decade run as champion and won two Derbies on Cameronian in 1931 and Bahram in 1935. He narrowly missed out on the British Triple Crown. He was ranked the 20th best jockey of the 20th century by Britain's industry paper, the Racing Post.

Fox was born in Berrington, Shropshire, England, became an apprentice at the age of eighteen, and had his first winner a year later. In 1911, he had his first Classic winner, taking the 1,000 Guineas on James de Rothschild's filly Atmah. He then took some time out to go to Germany where he spent two seasons riding for the von Weinberg stable, but returned to England prior to World War I.

He spent the next decade or more as a journeyman jockey. He was not to win another classic until he was in his forties, and his career at this time was punctuated by only the occasional big race success, such as Irish Elegance in the 1918 July Cup.

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