NOTABLE CAREER

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 67, 16 September 1936, Page 15

NOTABLE CAREER

THE JOCKEY SAM HEAPY

Born in. 1882 and still a jockey, The record of Sam Heapy, the English jockey who has spent most of his liie in Belgium, is one of the most remarkable in the history of racing on the Continent. A month ago he won the Ostend Derby, which he first won n 1903, and his total of winning rides then stood at 2916, thus beating F. Archer's figures. In addition, he has trained over 2000 winners.

Heapy went to Belgium in 1900, and he remained in that country. In' his first season he was the leading jockey, and his, best tally for. one year is 198.

Heapy's ambition is to ride 3000 winners, and this he expects to attain in the course of the next two years. His patron Is Baron Brugmann do Walzin, with whom he has been associated for 24 years, and for whom he trains a stable-of 70 horses, riding several gallops himself every morning—he rides at 8.6 comfortably—and supervising the racing, which in the season takes place on several afternoons a week.

An accusation that he" had shot at a German officer during the. early part of the Great War Very nearly resulted in his being shot out of hand, but the enemy compromised by sending him to Ruhleben, where he remained a prisoner until the Armistice.

Whatever records Heapy may achieve before the end of his career, there is one that is never likely to be matched. That is to ride the winner of every race in one day, all for "the same owner.