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_ ; . -■■?.■■ ltttMltmm ™*™»« , , Lincoln Fields Notebook By J. J. MURPHY ■* Willie Garner Mutuel Dept. Employe Hardinbrook Hurt in Auto Acciden! Bockman Stable Quartered Here HAWTHORNE. Cicero, 111., May 19.— The last of the riding Garners has "hung up his tack." Forty-nine-year-old Willie Garner Garner recently recently an- _ , ; . Garner Garner recently recently an- announced his retirement from the saddle and went to work as a runner in the pari-mutuel plant here. The Garners have been prominent in riding circles for many years. Willies grandfather. Dode, who now lives in California, was a jockey, as were Guy, Mack, Lambert, Skeets Skeets and and Wayne, Wayne, ; i i [ I , [ I : j [ ; I i I i . f ! t t f . t t 1 . . 5 S ; 5 5 j I Skeets Skeets and and Wayne, Wayne, ™*™»« Willies uncles, all of whom had saddle careers. Guy was internationally known, winning stakes in both this country and at several tracks on the European continent. Mack was a leading jockey here for many years and won a Kentucky Derby with Cavalcade and a Belmont Stakes with Hurryoff. Guy won the French Derby on three different occasions ... Ike Bassett, of the Jockeys Guild, informs that jockey J. N. Hardinbrook suffered a fractured skull in an automobile accident in Cicero Saturday night and is at present at McNeill Memorial Hospital, Cicero . Jockey Darrell Madden departed for Detroit but will be back to ride the two-year-cld Tuo-six for Clifford Lussky in Saturdays Joliet Stakes . . Jockey William McKinley Cook got in from Louisville, while jockey Lois Cook returned to the saddle Tuesday following a brief spell in the hospital . . . Jockey Sherman Armstrong arrived from Louisville and will ride free lance here . . . Everett Lowrances good colt Everett Jr., winner of the Lafayette Stakes at Keene-land and the Duncan Kenner Stakes at the Fair Grounds, and second to Mr. Pros-i ecutor in -the Bashford Manor, was an arrival with five others in charge of trainer Dick Posey. Everett Jr. is the likely favor -. ite for Saturdays Joliet Stakes. Happy Go Lucky, who was third to Mark-Ye-Well in the rich Maturity at Santa Anita last winter, second to Gushing OU in the Louisiana Derby, and a double stakes winner at the Fair Grounds, New Orleans, during the past winter, is here in the stable of H. G. Bockman. Came from Louisville . . . Dave Womeldorf f , who topped the list of American trainers in 1940 when he had charge of the horses of the Mrs. Emil Dene-mark stable, is back with his old outfit having taken over the horses of the Emil Denemark stable. He has 32 head in his charge at this track . . . Lou Cahn, an old-timer among the trainers, is on the job serving as assistant to Jake Lowenstein. Included in the list of horses in Lowen-1 steins charge, is the good filly Mi mi Mine and others owned by Mrs. Herbert Herff , of Memphis, Tenn. . . . John A. Morris, president of the TRA and also president of the Metropolitan Jockey Club that operates the Jamaica track, will be an honored guest here next Monday. That handle of 53,191 for opening day was quite something, being almost twice as much as last year, which marked the re-. sumption of the sport in the area after a week shutdown due to the dispute of the HBPA and Sportsmans Park on purses . . . P. J. McMullen, who was ailing all last season, was well enough to come over from his Detroit home to view his Dry Run in victory in the Crete Inaugural. He watched the race from a wheel chair. . Baybrook, starting for the first time in over 13 months, gave a good account of himself and will be dangerous in future races. It may be recalled that this is the Ohio horse who was quite prominent in stakes hereabout in his two-year-old year. Is now four. Dan Gilbert, retired Chicago police captain, made his first trip out in some time. He is heading the Lincoln Fields police force this season. . Tom Downs, who is head of the police at Sportsmans Park, is now part owner of a restaurant on the norti. side . Royal Mustangs papa. Easy Mon, did better than his off-■ spring in the Crete. Finished third in 1939. j Mr. and Mrs. Allie Reuben, of Toledo, , usually come up with a good horse or two for Chicago racing. They have shown Sea- ward, Inseparable, Ruhe, Oil Capitol in | partnership with Mrs. Harry Trotsek, and Continued on Paqe Forty Lincoln Fields Notebook By J. J. MURPHY Continued from Page Three others to the public here. Now they seem to have an up and comer in Pomace . . . This looks like a big year for William Hal Bishop. His horses were hot at New Orleans and hotter at Sportsmans, and he started off the Lincoln meeting winning three races opening day . . . Willie Fronk, Jack Carter ,and Harry Golden are among the unemployed trainers on the grounds. All have done well with horses in this territory in the past... Dave Erb, who was recognized as a good two-year-old rider on the coast before coming to Chicago last year, rode the first two-year-old winner of the meeting . . . Despite trimmings in the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Prep, starter Ruby White believes the California Correspondent is a better colt than shown.
