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LEADING AMERICAN JOCKEYS Wayne Wright increased his lead over Paul Keester last week in the race for rid ¬ ing honors by piloting four winners reach ¬ ing the century mark in victories His lead over his chief rival is now nine winners Keesters position is threatened by J Wag ¬ ner who by piloting nine winners last week the high mark for the period reached a point where he is only five winners out of second place C Stevenson had a good week with eight winners to his credit Fol ¬ lowing are the records of the thirty lead ¬ ing American jockeys from January 1 up to and including the racing of last Sun ¬ day dayLast Last LastJockey Jockey Mts 1st 2d 3d Unp PC Wk WkWright Wright W D 469 100 72 58239 21 4 4Keester Keester P 401 91 74 49187 23 0 0Wagner Wagner J 608 85 89 84350 14 P PBalaski Balaski L 614 82 81 67384 13 J JCoucci Coucci S 388 76 72 49191 20 3 3Workman Workman R 260 74 39 28119 28 6 6Neves Neves R 433 73 59 53248 17 0 0Lindberg Lindberg H 439 73 62 53251 17 7 7Gray Gray A 472 72 90 63 247 15 Colpitts R 514 69 76 58311 13 0 0Lynch Lynch J 423 69 67 58229 16 Parvin C 418 65 44 47262 16 5 5Westrope Westrope J 474 64 63 69278 14 Thompson V 346 59 45 57185 17 Robertson A 296 58 44 46148 20 Fernandez F 319 58 53 43165 18 S SArcaro Arcaro E 339 54 65 42178 16 Smith F A 339 53 42 32 212 16 3 3Ritz Ritz F 360 52 44 55209 14 Terry M 430 50 63 48269 12 3 3Watson Watson G 381 50 43 40248 13 S de Perini E315 48 41 34192 15 15King King J 325 46 55 38186 14 14Turner Turner L 323 44 42 38199 14 14Young Young S 208 44 31 23 110 21 21Watson Watson R 211 44 32 21114 21 21Stevenson Stevenson C 221 43 31 20127 19 19Merritt Merritt R 329 42 44 45198 13 13Sena Sena T 229 42 27 29 131 18 18Johnson Johnson J 284 41 35 40 168 14