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MAY RIDE FOR J. C: MILAM Veteran Jockey Mack Garner Con-! sidering Proposition to Return to His Old Employer. LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 9. Mack Garner and J. Cal Milam, the jockey and trainer combination that clicked so successfully for Several years immediately following the World War, may try a comeback this season. After several years of turf operations, greatly reduced from what he once carried on, Milam is preparing a string of twelve for the coming season. He wants Garner to do the riding, and they talked over the proposition for some hours in Lexington yesterday. Said Garner, following the conference: "It looks like I am going back with my former boss." Garner is making a trip to New York next week, and if an eastern stable negotiating for his services does not meet his terms, its dollars to doughnuts he will tie up with Milam for the season. "Not a better horseman in the business, nor a better one to work for," is what Garner has said of Milam many times. Garner and Milam had remarkably successful years with the Johnson N. Camden and the late Bernard B. Jones horses, and this season Milam has among the twelve he is conditioning four owned by Camden. Three of them are two-year-olds, all named for the Bashford Manor Stakes, to be renewed during the coming Churchill Downs meeting. They dre Ravelstoke, a gelding by Erown Bud Homestar; No Radio, a filly by Stimulus Magic Spell, and Barrette, a daughter of General Lee Avalona. Garner last year was under engagement to Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloanes Brookmeade Stable and rode the superlative Cavalcade in all his great triumphs. Garner finished second to Wayne Wright in the list of stake-winning riders with thirty victories, worth 94,123. He is thirty-six years old and has been riding since 1914. He led the riders in 1915 with 151 winners out of 775 mounts. He has piloted winners of a majority of the most important stakes, including the Kentucky Derby, which he wonfor the first time astride Cavalcade last year.
