John Lane

The younger brother of jockey William Lane, John Joseph Lane was born on 4 September 1886.

As an apprentice, he came second at Newmarket's Cesarewitch meeting in 1900 on Mr W. Duke’s Remember Me, and won on Mr W. H. Gilbey’s Pledge on the third day of the meeting.

In France, in 1903, he rode Bol in the French 2,000 Guineas but finished unplaced.

After WW1 he had some mounts in England in 1919/1920 for James Arnaud de Rothschild.

He was once badly injured on the gallops.

In 1939 he was living in Putney Hill Road, London and listed as ‘retired jockey’.