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09-02-2011, 02:02 AM
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A Jockey Lesson
http://www.forterietimes.ca/ArticleD...aspx?e=3282338
In a previous life I would watch the results come in over the teletype and once again the same name would appear.
3 ,4 ,5 even 6 times in a day.
Week in Week Out.
How could it be?
Before Baze there was Hawley.
Owned Canadian Racing.
Great Rider.
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09-02-2011, 07:33 PM
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Guess you're all too young to care.
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09-02-2011, 08:08 PM
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Coincidentally, a man a the track asked me the following Trivia Question yesterday:
"Who was the first jockey to win over 500 races in one year?"
I guessed Johnny Longden.
He said "No."..... Sandy Hawley.
I didn't argue with him. I'd be surprised if others (Arcaro, and Longden)
didn't post that number. But he said he was a documentary and they said
"Sandy Hawley." I asked him if that was at Woodbine?
He didn't know as Hawley also rode in So Cal.
Whether or not that stat is right, I don't know.
Great jockey though.
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09-02-2011, 10:16 PM
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Sandy was also a great penalty box official for the LA Kings. True multi-tasking.
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09-02-2011, 10:45 PM
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A Jockey Lesson
Before Sandy Hawley there was Avelino Gomez, the first Canadian rider to win more than 300 races in a year.
Back in another life, circa early 60's, he was on a Mohawk Airlines DC-3 with me going from Albany to LaGuardia after he had ridden at Saratoga that day.
As I recall, he had an easier time getting "high" than that prop-job did.
Ocala Mike
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09-02-2011, 11:03 PM
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He was pretty famous for his locks as well. Pun intended
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09-03-2011, 05:34 AM
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Originally Posted by Ocala Mike
Before Sandy Hawley there was Avelino Gomez, the first Canadian rider to win more than 300 races in a year.
Back in another life, circa early 60's, he was on a Mohawk Airlines DC-3 with me going from Albany to LaGuardia after he had ridden at Saratoga that day.
As I recall, he had an easier time getting "high" than that prop-job did.
Ocala Mike
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EL PERFECTO 
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09-03-2011, 06:51 AM
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The article says it well, he was a joy to watch ride.
I vividly remember him , at the Fort, guiding a horse early in a race for best position by showing the horse the whip to the outside, and urging it onward with his body. The horse responded by going to the left, away from the whip, just where Hawley wanted to be positioned. Real communication.
I certainly enjoyed those summers at the old Fort- a Patti's selection sheet, a burger in hand, and watching from the balcony seats, where there was always a cooling breeze available.
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09-03-2011, 10:44 PM
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Seems to me he was a cancer survivor of sorts. Does anyone have info on that? 
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09-03-2011, 11:12 PM
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Out-of-town Jasper
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He had skin cancer in 1986 I believe.
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