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JONES SADDLES A WINNER Ex-Jockey Quickly Breaks Into Ranks of Winning Conditioners With Summit Hill. NEW ORLEANS, La., Dec. 2. It did not take Leo Jones long to break into the rank3 of winning trainers, as the second horse that youthful New Orleans conditioner saddled came home on the front end at the Fair Grounds when Summit Hill scored last Wednesday afternoon. "Lightning," as Jones is familiarly known to his legion of friends along the Crescent City turf rialto, made his debut as a trainer at the start of the Louisiana Jockey Clubs meeting, for his father-in-law, John H. Galway, Sr. After having spent ten years in the saddle, Jones, now 26 years of age, found that reducing was impairing his health and realized that it would be folly to continue sporting the silks and only receiving a mount now and then. Summit Hill was purchased, and Jones set out to prepare the six-year-old gelding for a campaign during the winter in his native city. Summit Hill made his initial appearance for the Galway-Jones combine on the third day of the current season and finished in fifth place. That race unquestionably tightened the gelding for a better performance Wednesday, on which occasion he led home Manhunt, Overplay, Justa Flight, Laura Kiev, Tiempo, Western Run, Brass Monkey, Paul T., Coming Back, High Man and Raga-creek, over a distance of a mile and a furlong. Jones came into possession of another horse prior to the triumph of Summit Hill, acquiring the sprinter Black Rhapsody via the claiming route, and a few more worthwhile additions are contemplated by the former reinsman, who appears to attain as much success in his new role as he did during his career as a jockey.
