WON OVER 1000 RACES DIED PENNILESS
NEW YORK, Nov. 16. A man found. dead 1'rofn pneumonia by passersby who saw him lying among tombstones in the cemetery at Jamaica, Queens County, has heen identiiied as Buddy Ensor, aged 47, once raiuced among America's greatest joc„eys, who earned and spent vast smns as casually as he fiicked a crop. hstimates of his earnings range from 500,000 to 1,000,000 doliars — In; nevor kept records — timi at one tinui he had a retinne of nine, including a nianager, agent, vtilet, chaud'eur, cook, inaid and aurse, but he (lied penniless. Ensor won over 1000 ruces. His best year was 1020. when he rode S(3 winners in IS.'! nteps. In the autumn he also got 33,000 doliars for his victory oa ("irrus in the Brooklyn Jlandicap at Aquednct. Tis one regret as a jockev was tluit he never swept a raeeejird. The closest he ever came was at Aqueduct, where | he won the first lxve and was nosed out I in the last of a six-racc programme. His'wife is taking the body to Saracoga Spring*. w'here Ensor once owned a 50.000-dollar llome.
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Chronicle (Levin), 18 November 1947, Page 5
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