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THIRTY LEADING AMERICAN JOCKEYS For the first time tins year the veteran jockey J Loftus has forced his way into the list of thirty leading jockeys of 1918 In judgment of pace and allaround riding skill he has no superior in this country but his inability to make low weights necessarily restricts him to few mounts in compari ¬ son with such of pur best riders as can ride at 103 pounds or less else he would be higher up in the list than he is With only one track in operation last week the jockeys who happened to be riding at Empire City had a chance to improve their rec ¬ ords while their brethren at Laurel and Latonia wera in idleness Of those who had the opportunity to ride L EnsoB di3 b esfwi tb nine winning mounts A little moreluck of that brand would imtliim 4n sight of his first century The leaders remained as they were and the records of the fortunate thirty are areJockey Jockey Mts 1st 2d 3d Uup PJCLW PJCLWLyke Lyke L 693 167 106 97 323 24 3 3Sandc Sandc E 661 149 107 78 330 22 0 0Robinson Robinson F 079 141 103 81 352 21 4 Lunsford II 670 126 133 90 321 19 0 Howard J 55Q 98 03 61 328 18 0 0Walls Walls G 404 71 72 53 206 18 3 3Ensor Ensor L 372 71 00 48 187 19 9 9Connelly Connelly D 551 62 75 74 340 li 0 0Rodriguez Rodriguez J 416 54 51 57 234 13 0 0Kunimer Kunimer C 334 59 48 48 179 13 0 0Gentry Gentry L 400 50 45 40 263 12 0 0Pauley Pauley U 165 49 25 33 5S 30 0 0Schuttinger Schuttinger A 274 48 43 22 101 18 3 3Simpson Simpson K 330 44 38 34 220 13 0 0Collins Collins A 589 42 72 56 41 07 0 0Johnson Johnson A 389 42 56 53 230 11 0 0Smith Smith F 306 42 39 39 186 14 0 0OBrien OBrien W J220 41 si 28 120 19 0 0Taplin Taplin E 297 40 40 26 191 13 3 3McAtee McAtee L 332 38 40 42 206 11 11Pitz Pitz J 292 38 37 32 185 13 o Merglcr C 270 34 43 103 13 0 Garner M 213 32 33 34 114 25 0 Rice T 294 31 38 49 170 11 11Fairbrother 0 Fairbrother C146 146 31 26 23 00 21 1 245 31 17 31 100 13 0 320 30 36 43 215 09 0 148 30 25 20 73 20 0 182 30 2i 19 H 0 105 30 18 15 42 29 1
