Younger Headley Makes Debut, Daily Racing Form, 1953-05-01

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Younger Headley Makes Debut FORT MIAMI, Maumee, Ohio, April 30. — Owen Leon "Pete" Headley made his riding debut here today astride Cactus Jim in the first race. Little Headley is the younger brother of Charlie Headley. who raced with considerable success around Detroit for years. Pete is under contract to Clarence Hartwick and has been leased for the Fort Miami meeting by B. E. Pool. The youngster has been the regular exercise boy for Hartwicks mare, Sickles Image, for the past two years and has been galloping her and others at his contract employers farm in Oxford, Mich , all winter. The lad is 17 years old and can ride at 102 pounds.


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