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JOCKEY GENTRY IS TRAINER GENTRY Will Have Charge of The Beach Stable This Year — Retired from the Saddle Last August. LKXIX6T0X, Ky.. February 1.— Lloyd Gentry, who has been engaged to train the Beach Stable. was a race rider far -oven years until the first any of the last Saratoga meeting, when lie determined thai il was tn Bench of a task to reduce his rapidly increasing weight and unit the saddle. ; niiy is a native of Greenville, Texas, and is twenty-four years old. Ho began with horses at the age of sixteen in the employ of John Randolph and rode in the far west until the season of 1914. when ho came to Kentucky to ride for Jerome B. Kespess. who was hi- i mployor until he shed hi-silks. During the last throe years of his service K. B. Bradley had second call on him. While ho was with I: -in-- and A. I.. Kirby. he campaigned some of the Kespess horse-. Gentry saved much of th" money he earned as a rider. He has a farm of two hundred acres mar Greenville, for which he recently refused |S98 an acre. This farm is under the management of his brother Olin. who was a race rider in the we-t in Hilt; and 1917.
