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GUY GARNER OFF FOR FRANCE. El Paso, Tex., November 19. Wayne-Garner has received word from his brother, Guy, to the effect that the latter has sailed from New York for France, where he will again ride for Baron Rothschilds stable. This is the second time that Guy has been called to that country to ride for the Rothschilds. Last winter he won many races at Juarez and this summer was quite successful in Kentucky. From the time of the filling of his first contract in the foreign country, Garner expressed himself as highly pleased with the manner "in which the sport of thoroughbred racing is conducted in France. He informs his brother Wayne that he has ridden his last race in America, and that r.o long as he follows the calling of a rider, he will stick to the sport in France, if possible. His foreign employer made the new contract by cable and witli the hope that racing would be taken up on an elaborate scale in France the coming spring. It is agreed, however, that should racing not come back as expected in the land now mixed in the European war, that Garner is to go with the stable to Spain, where racing is reported as being promoted along prosperous lines. The Garner family, of Centervillc, Iowa, has already sent to the turf five good riders in Wayne. Sheets, Guy, Harry and Mack. Skeets, Guy and Mack became famous jockeys. Skeets. long since becoming to heavy to ride, has not been in the saddle for years. Guy is a rider whose services are still in demand where a heavy weight . can take a call. He rode at 113 all summer. The Rothschild offer was so far in excess of everyhing in the shape of salaries held out for riders in this country that Guy lost no time in making ready for the trip across the water. Mack Garner, the Corrigan and McKinncy lightweight, who was first uncovered by W. M. Cain on the inter-mountain circuit and later polished ofl! as a Juarez apprentice sensation, is due here from his Iowa home to ride during the coming meeting at Juarez. Mack has grown a bit, but expects to make 100 pounds with ease. Mack is next to the youngest of the Garner boys, being eighteen years old. The senior Garner, T. F., will bring to the Mexican track this fall to begin his career as a jockey the last and youngest of tho boys. Lambert, aged sixteen. Lambert is now at the Churchill Downs course at Louisville, where he is galloping horses for the Missouri turfman, B. A. Jones. The youngster is said to be a boy of much promise. Mr. Carncr expects to bring along a couple of horses to race at the winter meeting. George Molesworth, who is included in the list of the thirty leading American jockeys for the current year, is due to arrive from his home in San Antonio. Molesworth is contract rider for the J. C. Ferriss stable, which houses the good horse, Raoul, and the fleet sprinter, Harry L.
