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HEAPY RIDES 2479 WINNERS WINNERSSpecial CablegramI Special Cablegram I NEWMARKET England April 30 The long standing record of 2478 winners com ¬ piled during thirteen years of saddle activ i ity by the late English jockey Fred Archer t greatest horseman of all time has fallen by the wayside as another British jockey the veteran Sam Heapy who now plies his pro fession in Belgium where he has been riding since 1902 rode his 2479th winner last Sat ¬ urday urdayIt It was when scoring his second score on that afternoon at Stockel Brussels that the fiftytwoyearold Heapy made turf his ¬ tory He is one of the most popular riders in Belgium and for the past thirtytwo years has been retained as first jockey to the stable of Baron De Brugmann leading ownerbreeder countryIt in that country It was only last year that todays premier English jockey Gordon Richards topped the late Fred Archers other long standing rec ¬ ord of having ridden the greatest number of winners in any one year in England
