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THIRTY LEADING AMERICAN JOCKEYS The last week of Saratoga racing was one of decided success for leading jockey Lawrence Lyke his score of eight races won being the best to the credit of any rider on the eastern tracks for some time past More and more it appears that Lyke is to be the premier American rider of 1918 Because of his suspension E Sande drew a blank vwliile LunsfoVd for whom Saratoga proved an unlucky track added but one winner to his total Frank Robinson did better in guiding five winners but at present his chances of another premiership appear slim G Walls succeeded in three races and is riding well It will not be long until three major meetings will be in progress at the same time affording other riders a chance to fatten their records In the meantime the records of the thirty leading riders at the end of last Saturdays racing were as follows Jockey JockeyLyke Mts 1st 2d 3d Unp PC LW Lyke L 572 139 77 72 284 24 8 Sande E 584 123 84 CS 309 21 0 Lunsford II 593 109 121 82 281 18 L Robinson F 550 112 85 05 2SS 20 5 Howard J 482 85 58 52 287 18 0 Ensor L 305 55 53 37 IfiO 18 1 Connelly D 455 52 50 CO 303 11 0 Walls G 279 49 48 32 150 18 3 Gentry L 348 44 38 39 227 13 0 Pauley it 139 42 24 28 45 30 0 Rodriguez J 322 41 39 46 196 13 0 Pitz J 292 38 37 32 185 13 13Simpson Simpson R 299 34 33 31 201 15 Johnson A 304 33 33Kummer 37 47 187 11 Kummer C 224 33 33Collins 31 30 130 15 Collins A 470 32 32OBrien OBrien W Jlifi 31 20 93 18 Erickson H 213 31 17 30 105 13 0 Smith F 233 30 20 27 150 13 0 Crump W 148 30 25 20 73 20 0 Willis 0 290 29 39 34 188 10 0 Mergler C Bali R 231 28 17 24 102 12 Rice T 242 27 32 30 147 11 McAtee L 236 27 25 25 159 11 11Byrne Byrne G 155 25 28 22 SO 16 16Garner Garner M 106 25 27 28 86 15 15Humphries Humphries W106 25 19 22 40 24 24Buxton Buxton M 257 24 33 37 1C3 09 09Denny Denny E 12S 24 27 18 59 19
