Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-06

that year. aboard Zev, Sande rode 70 hA nSSS
Kentucky Derby victory, beating Bet AAoe'e ana
John Finn. 49,. W.,
CANDIES indomitable spirit was tested under
y Are ON August 1924 at Saratoga, when
:. had the most disastrous spill Of his career.
In the opening event on the card, claiming
afYair. four horses and their riders went down.
sande. riding James Buffers Squirt, received
double fracture of the left leg, fractured IeIt
collarbone . broken hip and a cracked Tib over
the heart German Dishmon and Dawson,
whose mounts Semper, Speckled Beauty ana
kathleen Nj Houlihan-also had gone down.
we're hurt, but not seriously.
For weeks Sande lay in hospital, his life
well nigh despaired Of But Earls hghtlng
spirit won through. Despite his Wlfes ,plea0lnG,
he refused to consider retirement. Even IN the
hospital he dieted so that excess poundage
might not creep upon him. Thanks to the
treatment. of the New York specialist, DR.. James
RUSSELL and. Admiral Cary T. GraySon, Sandes
life was saved, but he wears a silver wire IN
his left hip as a reminder, and 1t was not until
the following April that he again straddled
horse. He convaleSced at Jamaica, where he
worked out horses of Frank Browns string,
quartered there for the Winter
When Earl returned TO the turf he came
back spectacularly despite the croakings Of
experts that he would prove "saddle-shy," that
'they never come back" He rode Mrs. w. X.
Vanderbilts great Sarazen to victory in the
Newark Handicap at Havre de Grace, setting q
new track record of l:11 for the furlongs.
That was in April. In the meantime, Sande
had been released by the Raneocas Stables and
signed with the Philadelphia sportsman, Joseph
E. Widener. A colt owned by the latter, Hama
dan, being groomed for the Derby Then
the colt fell short of early promise and was
withdrawn William Ziegler had two promising
colts in training for the Derby, Needle Gun and
md had rail on
riding services. But both colts failed to de-
velop as had been expected
WHEN Sande arrived at Churchill Downs GA
Derby eve of 1925 he faced dilemma-he
was all set to ride, but had no mount. He tried
to get Jockey Benny Breuning rider of john
sons Quatrain to sell his assignment for 81, 900.
Breuning was Sande's friend, but he was hu-
man. also; his horse was the heavily backed
favorite. He refused Earls plea. 49, 4.
Then came a break. Clarence Hummer was
to have ridden Clifford A. COchranS colt Flying
Ebony, but remained in New York to ride
Chance Play at Belmont. Sande grasped his
opportunity, slim though it appeared to be.
Flying Ebony was a field horse. The skate'M
get good ride, Mt least" chuckled the cyriiCs.
The Derby of 1925 stands out rs one Of the
greatest achievements of Sande's career. Light
ming flashed, thunder rolled and rain poured
down rs the field paraded to the post, Sande
rode from the saddling paddock feeling himself
an outcast. Flying Ebony, in his horse way.
must have had similar emotions. !,
The webbing snapped, In the murk the crowd
could see little of what was happening. But
out Of the haze Of rain in the backstretcl1
SKINNED two "Spook" hgures-two black colts
one with aSrider in black and green, the other
- Alacb and gold. Captain Hal led into the
last turn, but it was Flying Ebony, with Sande
aboard that won by length and half.
. Flying Ebony never won big race thereafter
He ran his heart out In the Derby" says Sande
"He did nothing Of the kind" other experts aver
He won because sande rode him. Earl literally
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