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Show j Fate Kind Toward Earl Sande THERE'S no Jockeying life. No matter how fast the mount, there can al ways be a cropper ahead, 'ihe speedier the pace, the quicker the end. Which, bromides, stale though they be, can now be dished up and served, with full garnishing of truth, In a thought to Steve Donoghue, . Sande was sending his own horse to the barrier. He had graduated from jockey to owner. And tiis colors came through a winner, win-ner, at 15 to 1, In his very first race ! Chantry was the horse a cast-off of the Rnncocas stable. Orchid, green collar and cuffs, and orchid cap, are the colors. Sande, who knew when lllfii I v Earl Sande. S Steve was England s cracK jocney six times winner of the derby, wearer wear-er of the Gold Spurs (greatest prize In all racing). lie earned hundreds of thousands of dollars. Cut he spent them just as freely. Today this Idol of the track Is a bankrupt, a has-been, who rides long shots for $10 a race, with a $lo bonus If he wins. In 110 races ilii year, he won but once. Fifteen years ago he refused a ?30,-000-a-year offer from the kaiser to ride his colors. Three years ago he got $."0,000 for one race. Yet now, according to his statement In bankruptcy, bank-ruptcy, he has assets of only $2,500 and debts of about $25,000. How come? Steve was too good a fellow, always counting on another good winner tomorrow. This was all right, as long as everything was smooth sailing. Put in 1925, In the grand prlx at Paris, he was thrown and badly hurt in a jam at ttie turn. It was the same kind of shock which ruins the engineer who has been in a wreck. Science calls it a psychological stymie. But whatever It was, Steve was through as a great rider. It was a tough brenk, but one that might have been expected. No provision pro-vision for the future had been made and Steve new luffers the consequences. conse-quences. But Earl Sande, the American counterpart, has been thinking further fur-ther ahead than the nose of his mount. He has been saving his winnings. win-nings. At just about the time that Steve was being throwL' Into bankruptcy, to quit as jockey, now seems to know when to start, as owner. . There is little moral to this tale. But in the background Is the fading figure of an American jockey who was the Sande of his day Tod Sloan. He was an in.ernational turf Idol. But he had same of the Donoghue "easy go" temperament. And now, he is doing odd jobs in Tin Juana for a living. |