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DUDE FODEN REAL VETERAN Tied Willi Parke in Percentage Table After Seventeen Years. Has IScver Dissipated and Is "Well Fixed Dcnliam, Valley Farm Stable Sprinter, His First Winner. TORONTO, Ont Nov. 17 While there are a number of other veterans still in the saddle, j "Dade" Foden is the wonder of the lot ItDmanelli, Gross, "Sheets" Garner, Joe Dom-inick and "Chappie" Chappelle have been riding longer than Mrs. JFodens little boy, lenown around his "home as Norman, but none have retained the luster that has marked . the work of Foden after seventeen years in the saddle. This year he is tied with Parke for the lead of Americas jockeys from a percentage standpoint with a mark of .25, and is well up on the list of thirty leaders in respect to the number of winners to liis credit. Foden admits thirty-four years "have gone "by since he first saw the light in Toronto, -where he has done most of his Tiding. He married a Toronto girl and a bright little girl calls him daddy. Time lias smiled on "Dude," the moniker handed him years ago because he was somewhat of a dandy, and by the same token he is still a Beau Brum-meL He has always been careful, so much so that lie drives around in a Ford car. Other boys would be using Itolls Ttoyces, but not for Foden, although he lias accumulated plenty of the goods of this world- "When the day comes that lie quits riding he will be able to sit back and enjoy himself for the rest of his life. SO NEED TO 31EDUCE. The Toronto boy is of slight build, and right now can ride at 107 pounds, and it is not necessary now, nor ever has been, to do any road work. He has no grand ideas of Tacing or training a stable when he is through, but intends to follow his profession until he is no longer able to do so physically, and then not worry about the future. He has not ridden in the winter since 1920, when he made Tijuana his stamping ground. During his career he has had many accidents, but none of them have amounted to much. In 1913 he had a streak of bad luck at King Edward Island, where he had seven consecutive tumbles and still came out with only minor injuries. Peculiarly enough, his first mount was in a stake race, and he won it, too, being aboard Denham, at "Windsor, away back in 1907. He has ridden the "big" and "little" time from one end of America to the other, but the best day he ever had was at Dufferin Park in 1922, when he rode five straight winners. Foden has never been given to high life and, barring accident, appears to be able to go on for a great many years longer. Fodens forte has always been his ability to get away from the barrier quickly and hustle his mounts in the early part of the journey, but even at this late date is learning things, and during the present year has shown ability to ride a patient race and then to make a timely move. During the rest of his career he was too anxious to run bis mount at top speed from the break in distance races, but this year he has shown signs of rating his mounts excellently in the longer races, which accounts for his high percentage.
