The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-01
Will Earl Sande, Trainer,
 Eclipse Sande, The Jockey?
Race Fans Lose Track of Riding
 Feats of Great
 Horse Handlers
BY HARRY CRIMSON NEA Service Sports Editor

First it was Sande the rider the rider who was second to none. Now it is Sande the trainer the trainer who, in 1898, saddled Stagehand, The Chief win ners of $226,495 to gain lead ership in the money earned column.
 Sandy, a handy guy since 1918, says that in race of six or seven furlongs, War Admiral would drub Stagehard, his most eminent charge. He suggests, however, that in a longer race there might be a dif- ferent story.
 Racegoers watching Sande con- dition Stagehand for the $50,O0O Widener Cup at Hialeah Park, March 4. wonder if his success as a trainer won't cause the more modern addicts to overlook his even more brilliant record as a rider.
 By July,- 1918, Earl Sande, a product of Groton, s. D., had lost his bug, or apprentice allowance. His contract had been sold to Commander J. K. L. Ross. The boy remained with Ross, piloting many winner, until Oct. 12, 1920. ROSS TOOK SANDE
 OFF SIR BARTON
 At this point, Ross decided Sande wasn't riding in top form took him off Sir Barton for that good ones famous match race with Man O War at Windsor.
 Sande didn't like that and quit. Frankie Keogh, now a patrol judge at Hialeah, was substituted for him.
 Sam. Hildreth, Harry F. Sin- clair. and the renowned Rancocas stable all the same quickly grabbed Sande. It was under their banner that he piloted the famous and hooded Zev.
 Sande has had his full share of bad breaks. On Aug. 6, 1924, he fell from the late James But ler's Spur !. :. suffering frac- ture of the left femur. The fol- lowing April, in his first appear ance under silks after the injury, Sande prevailed with Mrs. Gra- ham Fair Vanderbilt's Sarazen at Havre de Grace. The horse ran three-quarters in Ill, breaking the track record.
 Soon afterward, Sane signed with Joseph E. Widener, and re- mained with that foremost figure of the turf until 1928. The boy was in ill health then, had trouble holding his weight, and decided to retire.
 In 1880, after an unhappy ex- perience training his own horse, Sande returned to the saddle, this time under contract to William Woodward. That year. Gallant Fox, Sande astride, won the three year-old championship and $308,- PTS.
 EARL A SHAVER
 LIKE STRICKLAND
 Sande laid off in 1881, but came back again in 1892, only to have a bothersome appendix force. him to give up. That fall he went to work for Col. Maxwell Howard. The story of his success as trainer with this Dayton, O., manufacturer has been the talk of racing.
 Sande rode 969 winners for lifetime average of 28 per cent, which is what share of his mounts came down in front. The Earl won more than $3,000,00O for his various employers. He won the Kentucky Derby three times in 1923 aboard zev, in 1925 with Flying Ebony. and in lsao with Gallant Fox.
 At least 132 stake runnings were captured by horses carrying Sande.
 He won race with Man O War and. like everybody else who ever came in contact with Big Red in any capacity, considers him the best he ever rode or sad He was astride Grey Lag, Cru sader, Billy Kelly, Osmand, Little Chief, Nellie Morse, Mad Halter Chance Play, Chance Shot, My Own, Mars, Petee-W -Wrack, Bud Lerner 50 many he can't remember.
 Willie Doyle of Hialeah has been patrol judge on many a track where Sande rode.
 "Only once did report him, he says, "and that time it was for an infraction in no manner indicative of foul riding"
 Earle Sande was clean and smart.
 He was a stayer like Stage hand,