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BILLY JOE CASSITY TO FORE Promising Young Apprentice Expected to Continue His Fine Riding During Fair Grounds Meeting. NEW ORLEANS, La., Nov. 22. Billy Joe Cassity, who finished the recent State Jockey Club meeting at Shreveport at the top of the riders, with a total of twenty-four winners, falling short by a single victory of having an average of one a day for the twenty-five day session, will do the riding for his grandfather, William Cassity, during the Fair Grounds meeting. The Western youngster, who has displeyed a keen aptitude for handling horses, bids fair to give the apprentices a merry battle for the riding honors, as in winning the I Shreveport title he topped Willie Page, who held the distinction of leading the reinsmen at Beulah Park and nipped by one winner at Sportsmans Park. Cassity graduated from the ranks of maiden riders in mid-summer and has displayed fine progress since that time. Cassity is one of a family of riders, virtually all of the men of the family having sported the silks, including his father who is training the horses Exceed, Adulation, Mon Cloud and Seven Up, the latter which was recently acquired from W. A. Mikel at private sale.
