American jockey and horse trainer
Earl Sande Sande aboard champion Zev
Occupation Jockey /Trainer Born (1898-11-13 ) November 13, 1898Groton, South Dakota Died August 19, 1968(1968-08-19) (aged 69)Jacksonville, Oregon Resting place Belcrest Memorial Park,Salem, Oregon Career wins 968 Major racing wins Dixie Handicap (1918)Sanford Stakes (1918)Black-Eyed Susan Stakes (1919)Kenner Stakes (1919)Merchants and Citizens Handicap (1919)Philadelphia Handicap (1919)Bowie Handicap (1920, 1921, 1923)Clark Handicap (1920)Connaught Cup Handicap (1920)Delaware Handicap (1920)Fall Highweight Handicap (1920, 1923)Ladies Handicap (1920)Saratoga Handicap Coaching Club American Oaks (1921, 1928)Dwyer Stakes (1921, 1926, 1930)Jockey Club Gold Cup Keene Memorial Stakes (1921)Metropolitan Handicap Empire City Derby (1922, 1932)Lawrence Realization Stakes Pierrepont Handicap (1922)Stuyvesant Handicap (1922, 1923)Spinaway Stakes (1922)Alabama Stakes (1923)Brooklyn Handicap (1923, 1938)Champagne Stakes (1923)Edgemere Handicap (1923)Fashion Stakes (1923)Gazelle Handicap (1923)Manhattan Handicap (1923)Saratoga Cup (1923, 1930)Saratoga Special Stakes (1923, 1925, 1926)Suburban Handicap (1923, 1924, 1930)Toboggan Handicap (1923, 1927, 1928)Carter Handicap (1924, 1928)Tremont Stakes (1924, 1927)Fleetwing Handicap (1925, 1932)Great American Stakes (1925)Twin City Handicap (1925)Havre de Grace Cup Handicap (1926)Huron Handicap (1926)National Stallion Stakes (1926, 1927)Potomac Handicap (1926)Jerome Handicap (1927)Saranac Handicap (1927)American Legion Handicap (1928)Wood Memorial Stakes (1930)Santa Anita Derby (1938)Blue Grass Stakes (1937, 1939)American Classics wins:Kentucky Derby Preakness Stakes Belmont Stakes United States Triple Crown
Racing awards United States Champion Jockey by earnings U.S. Champion Trainer by earnings (1938)Honors United States Racing Hall of Fame (1955)Fair Grounds Racing Hall of Fame (1971)Significant horses Chance Play ,Chance Shot ,Crusader ,Gallant Fox ,Grey Lag ,Mad Play ,Mad Hatter ,Sarazen ,Sir Barton ,Stagehand ,Zev ,Billy Kelly ,Cudgel ,Milkmaid
Earl Harold Sande (November 13, 1898 – August 19, 1968) was an AmericanHall of Fame jockey andthoroughbred horse trainer .
Early life in South Dakota [ edit ] Born inGroton, South Dakota , Earl Sande started out as abronco buster in the early 1900s but then became a successfulAmerican quarter horse rider before switching tothoroughbred horse racing in 1918.
Sande joinedCal Shilling andJohnny Loftus as a contract rider for CommanderJ. K. L. Ross . In 1919, he tied an American record with six wins on a single racecard atHavre de Grace Racetrack . He went on to ride for noted owners such asHarry F. Sinclair , andSamuel D. Riddle and was the leading money-winning jockey in the United States in 1921, 1923, and again in 1927. He won both theBelmont Stakes five times and theJockey Club Gold Cup on four occasions, theKentucky Derby three times and thePreakness Stakes once. In 1923, he won 39 stakes races forHarry F. Sinclair's Rancocas Stable, ten of which were on ultimateHorse of the Year winnerZev , including the Kentucky Derby, Belmont Stakes, and a match race against England'sEpsom Derby winnerPapyrus . Sande's most famous wins came aboardGallant Fox in 1930 when he won theU.S. Triple Crown .
Sande's fame was such that he was immortalized in a number of poems byDamon Runyon .
Following his retirement in 1932, Earl Sande remained in the industry as atrainer . In 1938 he was the United States' leading trainer and by the mid-1940s owned and operated his own racing stable.
In 1955, Earl Sande was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. His life story was told in the 2004 book by Richard J. Maturi titled "Triple Crown Winner: The Earl Sande Saga " (ISBN 0-9607298-5-2 ).
Earl Sande died in 1968 in aJacksonville, Oregon nursing home.[ 1]
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