page_title: Lester Reiff
section_title: Retirement from racing and personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Lester Reiff / Retirement from racing and personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Drawing of American jockeys (from left) Lester Reiff on Little Gent, Tod Sloan on Princess Melton and British jockey Mornington "Morny" Cannon on Princess Trenton at 1900 Produce Stakes at Newmarket Racecourse from Munsey's Magazine, Volume XXIV, October 1900 - March 1901, page 357.
context_page_description: Lester Berchart Reiff was an American jockey who achieved racing acclaim in the United Kingdom in the first decade of the twentieth century. In 1900, he was the number one jockey racing in Britain based on earnings, beating other prominent American jockeys such as Tod Sloan, Danny Maher, Skeets Martin and his younger brother, John Reiff, that were also racing in Britain at the time. The Reiff brothers were implicated in a horse doping scandal in late 1901, which led to the revocation of Lester Reiff's license and the end of his racing career.
context_section_description: Reiff married Frances Rowell, the daughter of California physician and horseman Harry E. Rowell, in December 1901. Reiff retired from racing in 1902 and moved to Alameda with his wife. Lester Reiff became a real-estate broker and venture capitalist, managing the property of his family and several friends until his death on October 10, 1948, in Alameda. Lester Reiff is buried in a family plot at Oak Hill Memorial Park in San Jose, California.
caption: Reiff (left) on Little Gent, Tod Sloan on Princess Melton and British jockey Morny Cannon at 1900 Produce Stakes  run at Newmarket.
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