DIED PENNILESS
ONCE NOTED JOCKEY’S END EARNED AND SPENT FORTUNE NEW YORK, Nov. 16. A man found dead from pneumonia by passers-by, who saw him lying among the tombstones in the cemetery at Jamaica, Queen’s County, has been identified as Buddy Ensor, 47, once ranked among America's greates. jockeys, who earned and spent vast sums as casually as he flicked a crop. Estimates of his earnings range from 500,000 to 1,000,000 dollars (he never kept'records), and at one time he had a retinue of nine, including manager, agent, valet, chauffeur, cook, maid, and nurse, but he died penniless. Ensor won more than 1000 races. Hjs best year was 1920, when he rode 36 winners in 183-. races in the autumn, and also got 33,000 dollars for his victory on Cirrus in the Brooklyn Handicap at Aqueduct. His one regret as a jockey was that he never swept a race card. The closest he ever came was at Aqueduct, where he won the first five, and was nosed out in the last of a six-race programme. , . , , , _ His wife is taking his body to Saratoga Springs, where Ensor once owned a 50.000-dollar home, for burial.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26621, 18 November 1947, Page 5
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193DIED PENNILESS Otago Daily Times, Issue 26621, 18 November 1947, Page 5
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