2-664-661 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Snake Lightning. Jockey: T. Hawcroft', 1939. Snake Lightning proved himself a good stayer in 1938 when running a dead heat with Naval Display for the Goodwood Stakes. English jockey Thomas Hawcroft (1918-1954) won the 1935 Cambridgeshire on Commander lll & the 1949 Ribblesdale Stakes on Colonist ll. One morning in 1954, he took a rifle into the woods - 'to shoot pigeons' but was found dead with gunshot wounds later that day. From Racehorses & Jockeys, 1938 - A Series of 40. [W. D. & H. O. Wills, Bristol, 1939]