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THIRTY LEADING AMERICAN JOCKEYS The racing of last week brought about several changes in the relative positions of our prominent riders Leader Lawrence Lyke was not affected Indeed by riding six vyinners he strengthened his hold on first place and came within one of achiev ¬ ing his hundred in winning mounts But II Luns ford by riding seven winners passed Frank Robin ¬ son aud is now iu second place Robinson being in bad luck and not guiding a single winner Sande rode in good form and adding six winning mounts to his score ended the week in a tie with Robinson for third place J Howard also considerably im ¬ proved his record witli an addition of five races won Thus while a total to twentyfour winning mounts was divided among four of our five most successful jockeys of the year the one who is prob ¬ ably the most skillful rider of them all had no portion of the distribution Up to and including the racing of last Saturday the records of our thirty most successful riders were Jockey Mts 1st 2d 3d Unp POLW Lyke L 411 99 49 24 5 Lunsford II 452 452Robinson 88 07 58 219 19 7 Robinson F 427 427Sande 85 75 43 224 20 0 Sande E 405 405Howard 85 59 41 221 21 5 Howard J 435 435Connelly 77 54 47 258 18 5 Connelly D 371 371Rodriguez 49 44 49 229 1 3 Rodriguez J 299 299Gentry 40 37 41 181 13 0 Gentry L 294 294Pitz 40 35 35 183 14 Pitz J 284 284Erickson 37 37 32 178 13 Erickson H 238 31 17 30 150 13 Crump W 148 30 30OBrien 20 73 20 OBrien W J 140 30 30Willis 21 20 19 9 21 Willis 0 290 23 23Kummer 39 34 188 10 Kummer C 185 19 19Simpson 27 25 104 15 Simpson R 234 IS ISBall 27 22 157 12 Ball R 231 28 28Collins 17 24 152 12 Collins A 352 27 40 35 250 07 Ensor L 185 25 28 25 108 14 Mergler C 185 25 20 28 113 13 Humphries W10I 25 19 22 40 Johnson A 21 21Smith 35 127 11 Smith F IS ISRice 1S1 24 20 23 114 13 Rice T 18 18Garner 181 23 25 25 108 13 Garner M 14 14MeAtee 144 23 23 25 72 15 MeAtee L 15 15Walls 1C7 21 18 IS 110 13 13US Walls G 11 11Obcrt US 21 17 11 a is Obcrt W IS ISShilling 188 20 24 15 129 11 Shilling II 11 11Grotli 117 20 15 11 70 17 Grotli M la 128 19 23 15 71 15 Stirling D 158 IU 18 10 lllU 0
