Fred Archer: A Complete Study

WELCOME, John Foreword by Lester Piggott [176] pp. Lambourn 1990 10 1/4" x 7" Illustrated w/ 15 colour plates from Vanity Fair Frederick James Archer (11 January 1857 8 November 1886), also known by the nickname The Tin Man, was an English flat race jockey of the Victorian era, described as "the best all-round jockey that the turf has ever seen". He was Champion Jockey for 13 consecutive years until 1886, riding 2,748 winners from 8,084 starts, in so doing setting records for the number of Champion Jockey titles (13), number of wins in a season (246) and number of race wins (2748) which remained unthreatened until the arrival of Steve Donoghue and Sir Gordon Richards well into the 20th century.