This Day in History: September 24, 1919
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). ↵