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Apprentice Paul Miller Promising Young Rider Impresses Observers at Belmont With Patience in Rating Horses BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., June 8. — Paul Miller, who impresses many observers as the most likely prospect among the apprentice riders now active in New Vork, has returned rom Delaware Park where he rode Belair Studs Hypnotic in the Delaware Oaks. Miller was astride the daughter of Hypnotist n. when she won the Coaching Club American Oaks here at Belmont Park. Millers contract was purchased by C. V. Whitney from V. W. "Buddy" Raines for a substantial figure last week. The thin-faced, blond lad, though he will be 21 in December, can ride at 106 pounds without much trouble and rides with an even stirrup and steady hand, having the patience to rate a horse and not lose his head when the time comes to make a move. Miller is a native of West Philadelphia, where his father, a former member of the vaudeville team of Miller and Lewis, Dutch comedians, still lives. Though one of five children, three boys and two girls, Paul is the only one who gravitated to the race track. That happened back in 1942, when the boy quit working as a bus boy for Horn and Hardart and journeyed down to George D. Wideners Erdenheim Farm. He was turned down on his first application for a job, but, as he says, "got mad" about a month later and tried again. The late Andrew Jackson Joyner hired him, and young Miller went through the usual routine of learning to ride at exercise. Miller rode his first race at Delaware Park in June of 1945 and broke his maiden on July 24 of the same year. The lad is not quite sure just who was the best horse he ever rode, but maintains that Helioptic, with whom he won the Queens County Handicap in a photo finish last Monday, is the gamest. An intelligent, plain-spoken boy, Miller is engaged to marry Miss Terry Ramos, of Hempstead Gardens.
