Sandy, Earl

Born Nov. 13, 1898, in Groton, where he lived until age 9, when his family moved to Idaho. A Hall of Fame jockey, Sande was the nation’s leading rider in 1921, ‘23 and ‘27 and he rode such greats as Man o’ War, Sir Barton, Zev and Gallant Fox. He was immortalized in verse by […]

Ecoffey, Fred

Fred Ecoffey, a Pine Ridge Reservation native who graduated from a government high school and attended Southern State Teachers College in Springfield, is hailed as perhaps the greatest horseman in Lakota Country, a region renowned for its horsemen. From a ranch near Wounded Knee, his racing career as a jockey began at age 20, per […]