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EARL SANDE IN CHICAGO Americas Premier Rider Here at Washington Park with His Own Stable of Horses. Earl Sande, arriving Friday at Washington Park, brought the following racers from Belmont Park : Hermitage, Safety Pin, Nearby, Spectre, My Lady, Chantry and Revel. The former star jockey, now an owner-trainer, who has the right in Illinois, Maryland and Kentucky to ride his own horses, is in good condition and during the remainder of the racing season here will, from time to time, ride in his own colors. Sande weighs 115 pounds and is in finer physical condition than he has known in many years. Sandes frame no longer carries any excess weight. He said he had not lost a freckle, but he had peeled off something like four pounds as the result of galloping horses during the winter at Bowie. "Every day I am asked," said Sande, "if I have regretted surrendering my riding license for one to train. I am satisfied as things stand, but I can say I am better equipped to ride than for several years past. I had to live on tea and toast a long time. It came close to wrecking my health." Sande will hardly start Hermitage in the American Derby. He is not up to a bruising race, his owner said. He added that he believed Hermitage would become an excellent racer over long distance. Nassak, star of Sandes outfit, has been turned out. He suffered injury last November in the Bryan Memorial after having won the Prince Georges Handicap. It was Sandes plan, had Nassak continued fit, to start him in the Coffroth Handicap, which was won by Golden Prince, I ow at Washington Pak. It is Sandes belief that Nassak will be restored to racing and that he will be a greater horse than he has shown.
