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RECORD OF J. FITZSIMMONS Veteran Turfman One of Best Trainers in Country Year 1929 His Best Year. James Fitzsimmons has always been a skillful trainer. He has been connected with racing for many years, beginning as a jockey. However, it was in 1920 that he really attracted notice from those not thoroughly conversant with personages, of the turf, although his ability was always appreciated by his associates and close students of racing. Known as "Sunny Jim" because of his ready smile and genial personality, he enjoyed his best year in racing in 1929 when the horses under his care earned the magnificent sum of 98,415. This year he probably will be a bigger factor in racing than eyer before. He has sixty-two horses in training for the AArheatley Stable, Belair Stud, H. C. Phipps and H. AV. Maxwell, including Diavolo, Distraction, Gallant Fox and others from the great money winning stable of last year, plus a promising band of juveniles, some of which are said to be above the ordinary. In 1920 he first passed the fifty thousand mark in money winnings. In fact, he went a good deal higher and trained the winners of 6,475. On four occasions his horses have earned more than 00,000. In 1921 through forty victories, 11,351 fell to him in prizes. In 1924 he won 07,400, in 1927 it was 32,-000, while the 1929 figures are given above. From 1910 up to and including the racing of 1929, he has saddled 629 winners, which won a grand total of ,183,850, a record of which he may well feel-proud. In 1928, with only eight winning races to his credit, the money winnings were 0,125. Nineteen-fifteen was his best year in regard to number of winners, but not his best in money earnings. That year he sent to the post fifty-one winning horses and then in 1920. at the start of his best era in racing, he again saddled fifty winners. Not only has he made a name for himself as a developer of race horses, but also as a jockey-maker. He had a great deal to do with AValter Miller, whose riding feats have not been equaled up to the present day, that is to say, in regard to number of winners ridden in one year and in percentage of winners for total number of mounts. The record shown below deals with twenty years of Fitzsimmons years as a trainer, covering from 1910 to 1929, which is as follows : Yesir. Wins. Amount. 1110 22 11.490 1911 24 ll.i.!2 1!12 42 20,111 1913 2., 15.420 1914 44 2S.973 19ir. i SI 27.890 1016 29 lO.SSO 1917 2li 22.S37 1915 4t , 42.777 1919 29 - 3S.287 1920 SO 70.47S 1921 40 111.351 1922 -.. 28 .95,319 1923 20 41.340 1924 26 107,400 1925 2L 79,7i5 192C 27 51,535 1027 34 132.070 192S 8 50,125 1929 39 198,413 Total 20... 029 ,1S3,S50
