Leaders Return to Beulah: Quartet of Pigskin Artists, Who Led Rivals during the Last Four Meetings, Trying Again, Daily Racing Form, 1939-04-14

LEADERS RETURN TO BEULAH Quartet of Pigskin Artists, Who Led Rivals During the Last Four Meetings, Trying Again. COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 13. Leading riders of the past four meetings at Beulah Park will be among the forty or more reinsmen who will vie for top honors at the spring meeting at Grove City, opening April 22. In the spring of 1937, the top rider was John R. Hill, then an apprentice under contract to E. B. Shipp. That fall, Robert Dean, also an apprentice and under contract to I. J. Collins, was the No. 1 saddle expert. Last spring, Stewart "Buddy" Vail was at the head of the jockey list, and last fall Bill Page, apprentice under contract to Russ Padgett, took top honors. All four riders received wrist-watches from B. "W." Miller of the Miller Oil Company. Miller again will award a wrist watch to the leading jockey. Page appears to have somewhat of an edge , over his three rivals on chances of repeat-lag for the youthful Canadians apprentice-jship does not expire until June 20.