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LE BLANC LOOKS LIKE INFANT Youngest of Family of Jockeys Losing "Bug" on May 24 Will Ride at Narragansett Park. PAWTUCKET, R. I., April 12. When Narragansett Park patrons get their first glimpse of a youngster in silver and black silks astride a thoroughbred at the Narragansett spring meeting, they will probably rub their eyes and inquire: "Since when have infants been riding race horses in these parts?" It wont be an infant, however, it will be Euclid LeBlanc, youngest and, from all accounts, most promising of the trio of hard-riding brothers. The mistake will be a perfectly natural one, the stewards at Keeneland last year held up the boys license until he proved beyond dispute that he was 16 years old, and now that he is 17, few will admit that he looks his age. This young riding sensation comes to Narragansett with the Flying Horse Farm, under lease from his contract owners, brothers Norman and Hubert, and William Crisp, his agent. Euclid, who rides at 100 pounds, loses his apprentice allowance May 24. He took up riding at the insistence of brother Hubert, who was astride Columbiana, winner of the 1937 edition of the Widener Handicap at Hialeah. Hubert now trains horses for Mrs. Howard Hoffman, of Lexington, Ky. Brother Norman is also a trainer of thoroughbreds. The baby-faced youngster, who is following in the footsteps of his elder brothers, got his start at Keeneland. He was one of the leading "bug" riders at Tropical Park in the meeting just closed, being topped only by Chuck Charlton.
