Four years ago, Jockey Earl Sande fell at Saratoga and broke his leg in three places. That would finish him. people thought; but Sande nine months later, on his first mount since the smashup, rode Sarazen to .a course record.
Last year he was barred by the Maryland Racing Commission from Maryland tracks, for fouling a favorite.
Last week, Earl Sande retired from active racing on the day that the Futurity, the only great race he never won, was run. Sande rode, according to the records, 941 winners and about 4,000 mounts in the...
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