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► . 1 i Monmouth Memos By FRED GALIANI Hinson Starts Riding Career at 23 Makes Up for Lost Time in Hurry Finishes Second on Initial Mount MONMOUTH PARK, Oceanport, N. J., June 19. — Starting off on a jocks career at the age of 23 is admittedly a little late, ac cording to the usual standards, therefore it is to be expected that one would make up for the lost time in a hurry. Which is exactly what Al Hinson did the other day. On the very first mount of his budding profession, he finished second, beaten a half-length. The 23-year-old lad from Goldsboro, N. C, ex- : j pressed no unusual excitement over his feat. Al thats his first name; its no abbreviated, form of Albert, Alfred or anything else Wesley Hinson is a short lad, which attracted him to his contract employer, H. L. Donovan, owner of the Thorn-cliffe Farm. The Richmond turfman asked Al to join his outfit when the latter was a youngster, but Hinson determined to finish high school, which he did. Upon graduation from Pikesville High, Goldsboro, in 1950, he decided maybe he had better take up Donovans offer. After a year and a half of work around the farm, where he broke yearlings, galloped horses and the like, he was brought up with the stable trained by Tom Kelly and launched on his career. Kelly has a high opinion of the lad and predicts that he will go far as a jockey. At least Al will have five years to prove it to his patron, who has Hinson under contract for that period of time. There wont be any others in the Hinson family to make jockeys. Outside of his married sister, he has one brother, Billy Ray, who is in service with the Army in Germany and of no build to meet the requirements of a rider. Whats that old saying, "Youre never too old to learn?" Uncle Miltie, the television star, not the horse, was a clubhouse visitor, taking in the races from the dining room terrace, but judging from the number of torn tickets in front of him, he wasnt faring so well. The slow track was throwing Berles figures out of line . . . Steve DiMauro, who broke a collarbone in a spill the last week of the Garden State meeting, was out to report that he is coming along fine and expects to be back in action within a couple of weeks. . .Trainer Leonard Hunt has gone in for breeding. Just received registration papers from the American Kennel Club for a litter of Boston terriors . . .William Holsey, who rode in a couple of races at Atlantic City last year as an amateur rider, is spending his vacation from business at the Jay Cee Farm of his brother, Joe. The young lad reports that he gets on horses in the mornings. Bill Reiley, the captain in the Parterre Terrace, is out sick and his place has been filled by John Cassidy. The waiters here have an organization known as the Cukoo Club, of which Captain Fred Hav-ron is the chief nut, or whatever the title is, and they meet once a week in Asbury Park. . .Martin Dohertys Grandma Josie arrived from New England for tomorrows Regret Handicap ... Jockey Basil James will travel to Aqueduct next week where he will ride Robert P. Levys Hueso in the Shevlin Stakes. . .Nina Foch, the actress, will be the next from the footlight parade to be an honored guest when she will be here tomorrow to present a trophy to the winning jockey of the race named for • her. Other personalities to appear in the near future will be Eddie Bracken on June 23, and Gene Raymond and Peggy Ann Garner on June 30. Tom Brogan of the state racing commission, has left New York hospital where he underwent a couple of operations, and is now recuperating at his Ridgewood, N. J., home. He expects to be able to leave for his nearby Spring Lake residence and be close to the races shortly. Some of the jockeys claim that Monmouth Park is the only track which has a full length mirror in the jockeys room. . .Andy Clark, who has been connected with the Lincoln Maintenance Company for 20 years, was killed by a truck early in the week. Clark, who had been a foreman at Delaware Park, was on vacation and going to his Seattle home when he was struck by the vehicle crossing a street in Manhattan, Kansas. Clark is survived by a brother in Canada, but Al Continued on Page Forty-Eight Monmouth Memos By FRED GALIANI Continued from Page Five * Schwartz of the Lincoln Maintenance, reports that the company arranged for the funeral. The running of the Regret Handicap tomorrow recalls that the traveling Sickles Image performed a well nigh impossible feat last year when she twioe finished second in the Regret. She took down second money in the filly and mare classic at this track on June 21 and again finished second in the Regret Handicap at Hawthorne in Chicago on October 8. Hawthorne has since renamed its race the Yo Tambien Stakes to avoid repetition and a misunderstanding among the racing fraternity . . . Charles Silver of Miaimi, Fla., who campaigns a stable on this circuit under Tommy W. Kelly, is vacationing in Europe until August Members of the New Jersey Sportswriters Association wilfbe present tomorrow and will be entertained at luncheon by president Amory L. Haskell and general manager Edward Brennan. They later will officiate in the winner circle ceremonies following the running of a race named in their honor.
