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LEADING AMERICAN JOCKEYS "Hank" Mills took a firmer grip on the lead over other American jockeys last week by riding eight winners, while S. Coucci and J. Gilbert rode wtih scant success. G. Elston had another good week, with seven winners, and A. Robertson followed up bis fine record of ten the week before by riding seven. He needed all of these to retain fifth. place, however, as B. Hanford rode nine winners and advanced beyond W. D. Wright and G. Smith in the standing. While last week was a good one for the leaders just mentioned, all were outdone by A. Beck, who had hitherto been little noticed. Beck rode fifteen winners, an unusual number, and his record for the last two weeks is twenty-three winners. His services have been in considerable demand lately and last week he had forty-one mounts, riding more than one-third to victory and increasing his average for the year to .20. Beck is now forging on toward the 100 mark in winners. Records of the thirty leaders up to and including October 15 follow: Last Jockey. Mts. 1st. 2d. 3d. Unp.P.CWk. Mills, H 810 177 145 129 359 .22 8 Coucci, S 842 162 143 133 404 .19 1 Gilbert, J 779 159 105 120 395 .20 3 Elston, G 702 152 127 88 335 .22 7 Robertson, A. . .636 126 117 92 301 .20 7 I Hanford, B 700 124 93 95 388 .18 9 ! Wright, W. D.. 751 120 106 93 432 .16 3 Smith, G 702 115 88 78 421 .16 ,0 Meade, D 784 111 111 96 466 .14 2 Martin, T. P 670 105 84 81 400 .16 1 Jones, R 612 100 97 89 326 .16 0 Lewis, M 710 98 94 83 435. .14 0 Longden, J 552 94 72 61 325 .17 0 Smith, J. W 654 92 85 80 397 .14 1 McLaren, J 530 91 77 68 294 .17 5 Beck, A 463 91 60 63 249 .20 15 Workman, R...364 86 46 53 179 .24 1 Humphries, L..462 85 68 48 261 J8 5 Reno, T 632 85 93 66 388 .13 6 McCoy, J 607 84 61 91 371 JL4 0 Corbett, C 533 76 59 65 333 .14 1 King, C 680 75 85 75 445 .11 2 Allen, C. E.... 544 70 86 67 321 .13 0 Landolt, C 415 69 53 42 251 .17 0 Matt, B 557 68 71 68 350 .12 2 Coopr, R. G., Jr.567 66 60 78 363 .12 4. Neel, J 643 63 46 75 459 .10 1 Mann, F 236 62 44 31 99 .26 1 South, G 371 62 49 50 210 .17 2 Watson, R. . . . .409 61 51 50 247 .15 0
