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JOCKEY JIMMY STOUT New Jersey-born rider will be honored at Garden State Park today. Garden State Dedicates Program to Jimmy Stout Hold Impressive Ceremonies for New Jersey-Born Rider Today GARDEN STATE PARK, Camden, N. J., May 27. Jockey Jimmy Stout, a native son to New Jersey and the most popular rider on this circuit for the past several years, will be honored by the Garden State Park Racing Association tomorrow with the entire program dedicated in his honor. The featured seventh race is named the Jimmy Stout Special, with seven capable allowance performers entered at one mile and a sixteenth. Allan J. Wilsons Arthur Pilate may be a lukewarm favorite, but the contest is wide open and a victory by any of his opponents would not be surprising. The line-up includes Go Between and Pensava, coupled as the Joe Gaveghano entry; Paul L. Kel-leys Sea Grass, Palatine Stables Chicle n., Potato Chip Farm, Incs Bimfort and J. Andrews Mesmer. Impressive ceremonies will take place between the third and fourth races, with screen star Richard Conte to be among those participating. Unfortunately Jimmy Stout is not named overnight on any of the entrants in the feature race, but it is probable that he will be solicited to handle one of the favored mounts. Likeable little Jimmy Stout, who is known in New Jersey as "Gentleman Jim," was born 38 years ago in Lakewood, N. J., and he has always been a staunch Jersey-ite, although he went to Miami, Fla., to find his attractive blonde wife, Billie. He began his career a number of years ago and chalked up his first of his more than 120 stakes back in 1933 on Golden Way in the Aqueduct Handicap. Since then about every big turf event in the country has been won by him and when he was riding for "Mr. Fitz" for over a decade he was on the best in the country, among them, Faireno, Granville, Johnstown, Isolater, Fighting Fox, Fenelon, Apache, Vagrancy and others. Bobby Permane will be on Arthur Pilalj in the Jimmy Stout Purse and off the horses last race he may be the right one. The six-year-old was beaten less than a length by the odds-on Joey Boy but was closing in on the winner rapidly. The event was at tomorrows distance and a repeat of his last should be enough to give him the victory.
