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AN UNUSUAL FEAT IN JOCKEYSHIP. Writing from Reno, Nev., under date of July 5. a Daily Kacing Form correspondent says of a "rare accomplishment in jockeyship: "Apprentice rider Herman Phillips accomplished the feat of winning the whole card of six races here this afternoon. Among his mounts was Make Good, which paid the liberal odds of 5.80 for . The youngster has only been riding a little less than two years and has all the qualifications for making a grand race rider, being of a sunny disposition, never Incoming rattled, and is a patient waiter with his mounts. This he clearly demonstrated today, when he took the final race with Cordie F. She began a trifle slowly and he did not become anxious when the flying leaders left him far behind, but rated her to perfection and brought her up with a well-timed rush, which placed to his credit a feat that only one other American rider has to his credit, this being the dead rider, J. Lee. "Young Phillips is a native of Wisconsin, but his parents make their home in Independence, Ore. He is eighteen years old and is under contract to L. J. Galbraith. He rode his first race on tin; fourteenth of August, 1914 at Anaconda, Mont., and scored his first win at the Exposition Meeting at. San Francisco on the twenty-fifth of August, 1515. It is reported that George AVingfield, who has seen tin? boy ride for the past few days, is quite impressed with his riding and is thinking seriously of purchasing his contract. He can ride at ninety-one pounds. "The attendance on July 4 broke all records for a crowd that has ever attended a race meeting in the state of Nevada. The speculation is rather light, hut improving daily."
