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GENTLEMEN RIDERS IN THE SERVICE Many Prominent in Racing Under National Hunt Rules Now with the Colors. New York, December 7. Edwin A. Burke is in New York enjoying a furlough from Spartanburg, where he Is in camp with a New York cavalry division that was afterwards converted into a machine gun division. Mr. Burke was eager to know all about racing, for he has been away for a considerable time. He is an accomplished amateur rider himself and trained, raced and rode his own horses, both abroad and in this country. He won races with Old Salt when lie owned that good plater and he also raced the good mare Killana and the gelding Quel Bonheur. Early in the season Mr. Burke had a promising string and his best was the jumper Light Arms, which was considered a good horse in Belgium a few years back. He expected great things of Light Arms, but when he enlisted, shortly after the declaration of war. this horse, with the others in the stable, were all sold, Light Arms going to the Olympus Stable. He went wrong before being brought to the races this year, but nhopes are held out that he will bo seen under silks in 1918. Down at Spartanburg there are a number of gentlemen riders well-known to the New York courses. Capt. Fred Alpers. well-known for his riding ability in races through the field, has a number of them in his own company. W. Wildey, Kenneth Karrick, Evans Tucker and Ned Lynch, a son of Mortimer Lynch, are all there and Charlie Ballard also has a son at Spartanburg, but he is in tlie engineers.
