Charles Barends, the renowned South African jockey is born

Date: 24 Sep 1919
Updated: 30 Sep 2019

Charles Barends, the renowned South African jockey is born

Charles “Charlie” Barends was born in Johannesburg on 24 September 1919. [i]Charlie was a jockey for 32 years, and rode 2 300 race winners [ii] Charlie only rode one July Handicap winner in 27 starts, and he won the Gold Cup seven times. [iii] He had sequential victories with a horse named Chez Monty in 1949 and 1950. [iv] Endnotes [i] C Barends (Charlie), http://julyhandicap.info/index.php?page=person&personid=1815 (6 April 2017). ↵ [ii] David van Lill, Van Lill’s South African Sports Trivia (Cape Town: Zebra Press, 2005), p. 224. ↵ [iii] David van Lill, Van Lill’s South African Sports Trivia (Cape Town: Zebra Press, 2005), p. 224. ↵ [iv] Golden memories, http://www.sportingpost.co.za/2013/07/gold-cup-history-golden-memores/ (27 July 2013). ↵

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01David van Lill, Van Lill’s South African Sports Trivia (Cape Town: Zebra Press, 2005)
02C Barends (Charlie), https://julyhandicap.info/index.php?page=person&personid=1815(6 April).
03Goldberg, R.: Father and Son, Riding High, https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/12/sports/horse-racing/father-and-son-schofield-riding-high-hong-kong-cup-racing.html?_r=0 (11 December 2015).
04Golden memories, https://www.sportingpost.co.za/2013/07/gold-cup-history-golden-memories/ (27 July 2013).
05Roll of Honour, https://vodacomdurbanjuly.co.za/roll-of-honour/ (13 March 2017).

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