#but don’t know enough about Hawley or really Antley to say that.

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I follow a racing photographer on Twitter who also looks after an archival collection and this photo of him from March 12, 1970 popped up when I searched his name. The lovely lady is apparently named Cleo, and the original post noted that Hawley considers 13 a lucky number.

Let’s talk about jockeys, jockeys are great. In his youth Sandy Hawley (Canadian, shown here in 1970s) was that unusual thing of being a good-looking male jockey who was also successful at horse racing. Most jockeys necessarily crackle with powerful short king energy, but young Hawley also understood about having interesting hair.

A nice thing is when famous jockeys are still alive and relatively uninjured. He is still alive and active in horse stuff, along with his current wife, Kaoru Tsuchiya, who was the first female jockey to race in Japan.

This is nice in a sport that is risky, tense and hard on jockeys.