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i » J e r. cs he ie ;d vs ■k the ie P" . *• | of 01 , a a , be js i| n" of 0f is is js Id a a ig n- se out ut I I ce I I in- I rs f* se | I the he , I at, °d fin- I ■ ! ! 1S- is is of H _ first rst n- NEVES IS PROMISING JOCKEY Young Western Rider Well Up in List of American Riders — Per- forming at Longacres. SEATTLE, Wash., June 28.— In the per- son of apprentice jockey Ralph Neves, youthful saddlesmith under contract to Mrs. C. B. Irwin, prominent Wyoming sports- woman, the western turf may have the champion jockey of 1935. With the first eight days of the meeting in the books, Neves has to his credit seven-s teen winners for an average of better than two a day and bids fair to gallop home with many a winning mount through the fifty-jS nine days of the Washington Jockey Clubs summer meeting at Longacres. Neves started his career as a caddy on the Stanford University golf links at Palo Alto, Calif. But the thrill of galloping horses and then the zest of competition in the meet- ings at Tanforan, Bay Meadows and Long- acres, soon made him forget packing bulky sets of clubs around an eighteen-hole layout, Neves has risen to fifth place in the jockey standings, passing Silvio Coucci and "Sonny" Workman, during the first full week of the meeting at Longacres. Now only Wayne D. Wright, the top rider; Paul Keester, Joe Wagner and Leo Balaski, riding on the eastern tracks, are ahead this daring young fellow frora Palto Alto. As a hard working knight of the stir-n" ;; rups, Neves bids fair to surpass even the performance of jockey Herb Simmons, who io as an apprentice made an enviable record "d during the 1933 meeting at Longacres. At times his daring approaches foolhardi-1 li- ness. He drew the first fine of the meeting for rough riding. But Neves is out to win in on every horse he mounts. His closest rival so far for honors here is is apprentice Harold Dudley, who has eight tit winners. Apprentice Bobby Colpitts of of Klamath Falls, Ore., is third with seven. [ , « i . 1 J I c ." J : J . . • e J R J y. n n j. fl e 2 .a . c" . . E . f l i ie ; d H ; w ul all ■ of if
