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Ralph W. Black Gives Up Saddle to Be Trainer Conditioning Ann-O-Vision and Kinsall for Ak-Sar-Ben Meeting OMAHA, Nebr., May 4. — A former jockey will discard his silks and make his debut as trainer at the opening of the 32-day Ak-Sar-Ben race meet Tuesday, May 24. He is Ralph W. Black, native of Cut Bank, Mont., who is retiring at 22 from a profession where his 130 pounds was on the heavy side. Jockey Black brought home 27 winners, 22 seconds and 30 third-place runners during the season last year at Ak-Sar-Ben, Liongacres in Seattle and Phoenix, Ariz. Black is training Ann-O-Vision, winner of 11 races last year, and Kinsail, a five-time winner, which will run under the colors of the ex-jocks wife. Another trainer who deserted the jockey ranks 17 years ago is Frankie Orr of Col-linsville, 111., with eight head in training. Included in the string is the stout-hearted mare, Risky Hash, winner of one division of the Inaugural Handicap here last year and first in the Cornhusker Handicap, owned by T. J. Berry, Belleville, 111., insurance man. Orr is also training a three-year-old filly. Busy Till, winner of two last year, owned by Mrs. Janet Burton of Kansas City. The former Omaha livestock man, Billy Cline, now a rancher at Amarillo, Texas, has sent the first contingent of his Cline Cattle Company stable here under the direction of trainer Jack Williams. Among the eight Cline runners are Lazy Shoes, winner of seven last year; Gallant Minded and Amateur Boy, each a winner of five last year. Amateur Boy has copped three this year and Gallant Minded has accounted for two wins, Another Cline runner, Old Beau, now racing in the allowance division at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, will join his stablemates here before the opening of the meet. He is a four-year-old by the famous California sire, Beau Pere.
