JOCKEY AS A SINGER
SONGS TO THE HORSES. “If you’re a jockey and want your mount to win, sing to him. That, at least is a device followed by Earl Sande, the famous American jockey, who has been taking singing lessons in Washington, and has ambitions to be a great singer. “Eve often sung to my horses,” explained this famous little rider. ‘‘Sometimes in a race I’ve ridden horses so nervous, that they’ve wanted to runs their heads off, and I’ve found it was lots easier to sing them back than to swing them back. “All the exercise boys know that, and you often hear them half-singing, half-talk-ing to their horses when they’re being exercised.”
Weighing ten pounds more than when he rode Gallant Fox to victory less than a year ago, Sande says that the jockey’s bugbear avoirdupois, has no terror for the singer. Almost exultantly he said: “That is one thing I like about singing—the more I eat the better I sing, but in riding the less I eat the better I ride.”
Sande has already received several offers to go on the vaudeville stage. However he is makm- no plans, but is “merely resting and studying."
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Southland Times, Issue 21331, 27 February 1931, Page 3
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