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ONE-MAN EXERCISE SERVICE Chester "Shorty" Terrill Makes Good Living Galloping Horses for Owners of Small Strings. LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 5. Chester "Shorty" Terrill, the busiest rider at the Fair Grounds during the winter, is in Louisville for a short rest following an arduous six months at the New Orleans track. Although his name did not appear on the program and he never once donned a set of silk racing colors, "Shorty" handled nearly 2,500 horses in exercise gallops at the Louisiana track, riding, in round numbers, approximately 5,000 miles. "Shorty" arrived at the Fair Grounds early in October and guided close to an average of twenty horses daily during the nearly six months he was there. He operates a one-man exercise service and is indispensible to owners and trainers who have only a few horses and therefore no exercise riders of their own. Terrill gets fifty cents a head, works or gallops, and of the nearly 2,500 horses he handled, only about 160 were not paid for, according to his final audit of accounts before leaving the Crescent City.
