Jockey Archie Burns talking with his fellow jockeys in the weighing room ahead of their next race. Illustrated news cutting. Scottish lightweight jockey Archibald Burns was born in Edinburgh on September 26, 1902. He was apprenticed to Percy Whitaker and made a slightly belated start to his riding career, partly due to the Great War.

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