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RIDER OF NOTED PRETTY POLLY DEAD The once prominent English jockey W. Lane died at Lingfield, England, recently at the age of thirty-eight. Lane, who rode that great mare Pretty Polly in most of her principal races, was leading in the winning jockeys list when a bad fall , at Lingfield in 1904 ended his career as a rider., He never really recovered and he visited " Australia during the course of a long sea voyage fur the benefit of his health. The first time he rode it winner was in 1899, but in 1902 he had 170 I wins, in 1903. 149, and 124 up to the time of his 1 accident in. 1904. Altogether he won 520 races of j 2,950 in which he rode.
