Joe Hulse

Flat jockey Joseph Hulse was born at Salford in 1889. He recorded by far his most important success on All Serene, trained by Captain Dewhurst, in the 1916 Stewards Cup.

That year’s race was actually a war substitute contest called the Stewards’ Handicap, run over six furlongs at Newmarket’s July Course, rather than Goodwood, which was prevented from holding race meetings during the Great War. All Serene was a 20-1 outsider but won ‘cleverly’ (according to the form book) by a neck from the second favourite Torloisk, the mount of Joe Childs. The runner-up carried 9st 3lb and was conceding a whopping 38lb to the winner, who carried just 6st 7lb.

Although he held a Flat jockey’s licence between 1910 and 1928, little more is known of Joseph Hulse.