Earl Sande

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Earl Sande

Occupation:	Jockey
Birthplace:	Groton, South Dakota
Birth date:	November 13, 1898
Death date:	August 19, 1968
Career wins:	968
Major Racing Wins & Honours & Awards
Major Racing Wins
Kentucky Derby (1923, 1925, 1930) Preakness Stakes (1930) Belmont Stakes (1921, 1923, 1924, 1927, 1930) Clark Handicap (1920) Connaught Cup Handicap (1920) Fall Highweight Handicap (1920, 1923) Ladies Handicap (1920) Coaching Club American Oaks (1921, 1928) Dwyer Stakes (1921, 1926, 1930) Jockey Club Gold Cup (1921, 1922, 1927, 1930) Metropolitan Handicap (1921, 1922, 1923) Lawrence Realization Stakes (1922, 1923, 1930) Stuyvesant Handicap (1922, 1923) Spinaway Stakes (1922) Brooklyn Handicap (1923, 1938) Champagne Stakes (1923) Gazelle Handicap (1923) Manhattan Handicap (1923) Saratoga Special Stakes (1923, 1925, 1926) Suburban Handicap (1923, 1924, 1930) Toboggan Handicap (1923, 1927, 1928) Carter Handicap (1924, 1928) Tremont Stakes (1924, 1927) Jerome Handicap (1927) Saranac Handicap (1927) Wood Memorial Stakes (1930) Santa Anita Derby (1938) Blue Grass Stakes (1937, 1939)
Racing Awards
United States Champion Jockey by earnings (1921, 1923, 1927) United States Triple Crown (1930) United States Champion trainer (1938)
Honours
United States Racing Hall of Fame (1955)
Significant Horses
Sir Barton, Grey Lag, Zev, Mad Play Mad Hatter, Crusader, Sarazen, Chance Shot Gallant Fox, Stagehand

Earl H. Sande (November 13, 1898 – August 19, 1968) was an American Hall of Fame jockey and thoroughbred horse trainer.

Born in Groton, South Dakota, Earl Sande started out as a broncobuster in the early 1900's but then became a successful American quarter horse rider before switching to thoroughbred horse racing in 1918. Sande joined Cal Shilling and Johnny Loftus as a contract rider for Commander J. K. L. Ross. He went on to ride for noted owners such as Harry F. Sinclair, and Samuel D. Riddle and was the leading money-winning jockey in the United States in 1921, 1923, and again in 1927. He won both the Belmont Stakes five times and the Jockey Club Gold Cup on four occasions, the Kentucky Derby three times and the Preakness Stakes once. In 1923 he won 39 stakes races for Harry F. Sinclair's Rancocas Stable, ten of which were on ultimate Horse of the Year winner Zev, including the Kentucky Derby, Belmont Stakes, and a match race against England's Epsom Derby winner Papyrus. Sande's most famous wins came aboard Gallant Fox in 1930 when he won the U.S. U.S. Triple Crown.

Sande's fame was such that he was immortalized in a number of poems by Damon Runyon. Following his retirement in 1932, Earl Sande remained in the industry as a trainer. 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 at the Landshead Resort in Nassau, Bahamas.