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SEASONS HONORS WILL FALL TO DUGAN. California Lad Far in the Lead in Respect to Winning Mounts on Eastern Tracks. New York, September 15. Eddie Dugau will have no trouble in carrying off the riding honors on the eastern tracks this year. He has been riding steadily, barring a suspension now and then, since Pliuluo opened in April, and in spite of the talk about rough riding he has a larger following among horse players than any other jockey. From the time that he began riding at Pimlico up to the close of the Sheepshead Bay meeting. Dugans record is SO winners. 70 seconds and 5! thirds, out of 844 mounts on the eastern tracks. He has worn the silks of practically all the leading owners, including August Belmont. James It. Keene, S. V. llildreth and John K. Madden. Incidentally he has ridden the best horses in training. But at that there appears to lie some doubt whether Dugan is a better jockey than Vincent Powers, Jimmy Butwell or Eddie Taplin. Before Powers was placed under the ban by the Jockey Ilnb stewards he convinced eastern patrons of the turf that he was a finished horseman. Taplin, like Powers, did not ride at the earlier meetings in the east. He was introduced to the metropolitan public at the end of the Sheepshead Bay spring meeting by II. G. Bedwell, and during the subsequent session at Empire City the boy created a sensation. He went up to Saratoga to score other successes, but when Bedwell was asked to put a price on the jockeys contract he declined and took Taplin to the Canadian circuit with him. It is1 believed that if Powers and Taplin had started riding at Pimlico when Dugan began his campaign and had continued in the east until now, both would have more winners to their credit than the present holder of the honor. But as they did not Dugan stands alone as far as winning, second and third mounts are concerned. Butwell. probably the strongest finisher on the turf at present, but an inferior post rider, stands second to Dugan, with 45 winners. 3! seconds and 28 thirds. Creevy. who was a green apprentice with practically no experience a year ago. has been so well tutored by trainer Healey of the Montpelier Stable that he has ridden 80 winners. 30 seconds and 38 thirds. Scoville. who has been riding the Keene, Bradley and Clay horses, comes next, with 37 winners. 2!5 seconds and 30 thirds. A much improved rider is Grand, under contract to M. J. Cromwell, the owner of Tim Pippin. Grand has gradually worked himself forward and is fifth in the eastern jockeys list, with 30 winners, 24 seconds and 27 thirds. The list of jockeys who have ridden five or more winners on the eastern tracks this season, with their records, follows: Jockey. Mis. 1st. 2d. 3d. Unp. P.C. E. Dugau 844 80 70 50 144 .28 Butwell 207 45 80 2S 95 .21 Creevy 28S 39 30 33 180 .10 Scoville 100 87 20 80 108 .19 C. Grand 215 80 24 27 184 .14 V. Powers 117 29 19 23 40 .25 Glass 154 27 2S 28 71 .18 Taplin 140 20 22 20 72 .19 Page 105 25 27 22 91 .15 McCahey 228 24 84 82 188 .11 E. Martin S7 19 12 10 40 .22 Nicol 57 14, S 7 2S .25 J. Mclntyre 74 14 14 11 85 .19 Davenport 82 14 31 15 42 .17 Upton 121 14 17 14 70 .12 Goldstein 03 10 18 10 80 . .10 II. Smith 59 9 S 9 83 .15 Hinchcliffe 52 S C i 82 -15 :. Garner . .. 98 8 22 11 52 .09 l.ral 90 S 7 11 70 .OS A. Lang SO 7 1 18 05 .OS .1. Bergen 11S 7 11 18 S7 .00 J. Iteid 42 0 S 5 23 .14 Deverich 44 0 5 4 29 .18 I. McCarthy 7S ti 8 15 49 .OS Gilbert 25 5 4 0 JO .20 Musgrave 85 5 5 C 19 .14 J. Butler 00 5 4 9 42 .OS G. Burns 01 5 15 0 85 .OS
