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STAR RIDERS OF COUNTRY • To Be Seen in Action During Arlington Park Meeting. 1 Earl Sande, L. McAtee, L. Fator, B. Workman, A. Robertson, L. Ensor and Others Coming to Chicago. • Racing at Arlington Park, June 27 to July 30, not only will bring together the countrys finest horses, but also the outstanding jockeys of East and West, it was said by racing secretary Joseph McLennan, who but recently returned from New York where he talked with leading trainers and riders planning to participate in the sport at Chicagos beautiful north side course. One of the riders local racing fans will see much of during the thirty-day meeting, Mr. McLennan said, is Earl Sande, for years Americas premier saddle artist and a particular Chicago favorite even though few of his great triumphs have been scored on local tracks. Sande has been able to make riding weight much easier this year than in the past few years and has been pursuing his profession regularly on the New York courses this spring, with his services in considerable demand for stakes. He will ride free lance during the Arlington meeting, when owners may be expected to bid for him because of the thirty attractive stakes, Mr. McLennan added. Sande is best remembered here for his wonderful handling of Gallant Fox in the Classic of 1930. Another famous eastern pilot, who is looking up train schedules for Chicago, is Linus McAtee, who commands the highest retainers of any jockey. First call on McAtee is held by George Odom and second by George D. Widener, but, as the Odom horses do but little campaigning during July, the "Little Celt" will be able to do much of the riding for the stable headed by Jamestown and Evening. Tod Leischmann, nephew of Tod Sloan, international riding star of another generation, also is attached to the Widener establishment. McAtees appearances on Chicago tracks have been few and far between and he is best known to racing fans of this section through his Kentucky Derby victories with Clyde Van Dusen and Whiskery. Laverne Fator. who, in the heyday of the late Sam Hildreth, was heralded as the "best horse" in the Rancocas Stable, but who is now first string jockey for Edward R. Bradley, will accompany the latters large stable here, as will Eugene James, flashy Louisville youngster who guided Burgoo King in his Kentucky Derby and Preakness triumphs. When Fator and Sande both rode for Hildreth, they more than once uncovered teamwork that had eastern racegoers marvelling, and Arlington racing may see something ot the same cooperation with James as Fators partner. Fators best work in recent years has come about in mid-summer and fall and the Arlington meeting fits just right into his schedule. The coming to the north side track of the C. V. Whitney, Mrs. J. H. Whitney and Greentree Stables also means that jockeys Raymond "Sonny" Workman, Alfred Robertson, Lavelle "Buddy" Ensor and Charles Kurtsinger will be at Arlington. Workman and Robertson sport the Eton blue and brown silks of C. V. Whitney and both have made favorable impressions with Chicago spectators. Robertson handled Top Flight in the Lassie Stakes and Mate in the Classic last summer. Ensor, who made a sensational comeback this spring after nearly a decade of inactivity, was declared by many horsemen a dozen years ago to be the best natural rider America has ever known. He is employed by the younger Mrs. Whitney, while Kurtsinger is the saddle reliance of Mrs. Helen Hay Whitney, owner of Green-tree. Kurtsinger was Twenty Grands regular pilot and guided him in the Classic last year. Anthony Pascuma will accompany the main division of the large Willis Sharpe Kilmer stable here. The Italian lightweight suffered a badly shattered leg in a fall from a Kilmer juvenile at Saratoga nearly three years ago and he often speaks of the many kindnesses of the Binghampton sportsman during the long time he was incapacitated. Pascuma also may ride some of the horses owned by John J. Robinson, including the speedy Lucky Tom. Some of the other well known eastern jockeys who are expected at Arlington are Mack Garner, who won the first Classic with Blue Larkspur and missed by a nose of winning the Post and Paddock Stakes with Mor-fair last summer; "Buddy" Hanford, a recent outstanding development attached to the stable trained by Preston Burch; Sylvio i Coucci, leading rider at Agua Caliente this past winter and whose contract was recently purchased by the Greentree Stable; also Tommy Malley and "Hank" Mills, the i latter under the wing of James Fitzsimmons. . Malley rode Faireno to victory in the Belmont • a week ago and Mills startled the racing public with his consistent triumphs in Florida during the winter. That the invading saddle stars will not ; steal all the glory is the determination of those lads who have been seen in action here day after day for several seasons. The western jockeys are led by the veteran i Johnny Maiben, who used to be in the East and knows all about it. Maiben, whose work this spring has set many tongues to wagging, says the competition at Chicago tracks is just as stern as anywhere else. Other • fine, smart riders with local reputations who i will perform at Arlington are Charlie Cor-bett, - Charlie Allen, Jimmy McCoy, Bobby f • i - f i Jones, Jimmy Smith, Bill Fronk and Charlie i Landolt and the rising apprentice stars W. • Wright, C. King, T. P. Martin and W. • Saunders.
