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Show JOCKEY IS RICH, BUT WON'T QUIT Millionaire Rider of Australia Aus-tralia Still a Winner. . England has her Steve Donogluie and the United Slates has her Fator, but Australia believes she has in old Bobby Lewis one of the world's greatest great-est jockeys. Certainly his record Is the most singular of any jockey riding on any internal ionn! track. Lewis is forty-nine years old. He H reputed to be worth over a $1 .000.000. lie has tldden the winner of the Melbourne Mel-bourne cup four times and to Australians Austra-lians the Melbourne cup stands on the same shelf with the wreaths of the English and Kentucky derbies. Old Bobby made of himself a national na-tional hero when he won the big race on Trivalve, a G-to-1 shot, and In giving giv-ing him an ovation the 100,000 'spectators 'spec-tators paid tribute to a pair that won more than $100,000 in purses during the season. In addition to winning the Melbourne Mel-bourne cup, Lewis and Trivalve won the $35,000 Sydney derby, the $25,000 Sydney derby and several other less Important races and purses. There was a long stretch of 23 years between Lewis' third and four cup victories. He won his third victory vic-tory on Sylvanite in 1!K)4, and. in the meantime almost a generation of young jockeys came and passed while the old veteran continued to keep his place at the top of the winning lists. Being the possessor of a fortune that assures him a life of ease when he hangs up his boots, Lewis' friends frequently have urged him to retire and avoid the chance of being injured. "I am still young, why should I retire?" re-tire?" he asks. "Race riding is not a business or a profession with me. It is recreation, and away from the track I would not be happy. "Happiness means more to me than money. And also I want to be on a few more cup winners before I quit." |