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also accused the brothers of involvement in a horse doping ring along with Enoch
Wishard and other American gamblers. While "doping" with performance enhancing stimulants was illegal at the time in the United States, it was still permissible in the UK in 1901 and was not outlawed until 1904. Lester
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for alleged race fixing by "pulling" or slowing the horse so it will not win. This followed an incident at
Manchester Racecourse on 27 September in which Lester's horse had finished second by a head to a horse ridden by his brother. The local stewards (racecourse officials) were unsatisfied by the
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license was reinstated and he was contracted for $ 15,000 to race for Croker. Lester Reiff won 143 races out of 549 mounts in 1900, heading the list of winning jockeys in
Britain, and he was the first non-British jockey to accomplish this feat. In 1901, Reiff won
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with his wife. Lester Reiff became a real-estate broker and venture capitalist, managing the property of his family and several friends until his death on
October 10, 1948, in Alameda.
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in the first decade of the twentieth century. In 1900, he was the number one jockey racing in
Britain based on earnings, beating other prominent American jockeys such as
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Reiff married
Frances Rowell, the daughter of California physician and horseman Harry E. Rowell, in December 1901. Reiff retired from racing in 1902 and moved to
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His license was reinstated in 1904 but unlike his brother who resumed his career with success, Lester did not pursue horse racing again.
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brothers' explanations and so referred the matter to the Jockey Club.
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183:British flat racing Champion Jockey
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528:"Punishment for Jockeys."
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204:Lester Berchart Reiff
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291:Vanity Fair
220:Danny Maher
196:Volodyovski
169:Epsom Derby
110:Career wins
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397:References
228:John Reiff
65:1877-04-26
45:Occupation
383:Newmarket
375:Tod Sloan
328:The Derby
216:Tod Sloan
275:throwing
391:Alameda
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