JOCKEY'S LAST RACE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20075, 12 October 1928, Page 10

JOCKEY'S LAST RACE.

EARLE SANDE'S RETIREMENT. OVER NINEI HUNDRED WINS. [irBOM OTTO OTVN CORRESPONDENT.] NEW YORK. Sept. 19. Earle Sande, America's foremost jockey, rode his last race in the Futurity last Saturday. In 10 years Sando has ridden 942 winners, including the Kentucky Derby twice. He had won all the classics except the Futurity, but was not placed. Henceforth he will be owner and trainer. Sande and Steve Donoghue, England s premier jockey, mot some four or five years ago in a classic encounter between the American horse Zov and the English horse Papyrus, for ':he unofficial championship of the world. Sande piloted Zev to the winning post first. By a curious coincidence, the papers announced, on the day of Sande's last race, the bankruptcy of his English rival. Sande's retirement as a is duo to the fact that he finds _it difficult to "make" his weight. He is only in his 30th year, and is retiring 17 years younger than the Australian Bob Lewis was when he won the last Melbourne Cup. Sand® and Lewis have much the same style in the pigskin—both are adepts at the fa£ ion of riding set by the immortal Toa Sloan.