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WASHINGTON NOTEBOOK mm WASHINGTON PARK, Home-wood, HI., Aug. 26. Due to circumstances beyond our control, we are not taxicab or airplane people. We ride buses and trains, and on such conveyances to and from race tracks we naturally come into contact with the small bettor. As a rule he is an effervescent fellow. Will tell you about his system at the drop of a hat. If he wins, he sputs. If he loses, well, there is another day coming. The average small bettor is gracious even in defeat. We have witnessed perspiring losers relinquish" their train or bus seats to ladies! offer the fellow seated alongside part of their evening paper, and accept slow, bumpy trips with a smile. All of which makes us wonder is there any better "sport" in the world than the little fellow who patronizes racing. When Native Dancer won the American Derby here the other day he was given quite an ovation. Surely the little follows were not wagering on him at 1 to 5. When owner Vanderbilt accepted the cup he, too, was applauded, as were Benjamin Lindheimer, executive director of the track who made the presentation, and his daughter and granddaughter, who accompanied him to the winners ring. And when the day was ended those .00 bettors plodded to the trains hot and tired and talked of Native Dancer and owner Vanderbilt and Ben Lindheimer and Eddie Arcaro and seemed happy. It made for a good feeling inside. AAA Jockey Doug Dodson, who is serving a 10-day suspension, left for Seattle for a few days visit. He will probably drop in at Longacres, scene of some -of his early triumphs, and will visit with Frank Brewster, for whom he once rode, and who has been a longtime friend. Dodson rode Brief Moment to victory for Brewster in the Longacres Mile Jn 1939. . . . Apprentice Layton Rislcy, No Better Sport Than Racings Little Fellow Layton Risley Is Now Full-Fledged Jockey Riders Assigned for Sunglow and Picador Report on Condition of Hospitalized Turfmen who rode for the last time as an apprentice today, piloted three winners Tuesday, and it is unusual that all three horses were maidens. The loss of the five-pound allowance should make but little difference in Risleys career, that really began when he was successful for the first time at Woodbine Park, Toronto, May 20, of last year. Due to injuries he received an extension of his apprentice allowance. Risley, who hails from a small town in New Jersey, was 21 years old last March and is at present under contract to William Hal Bishop. He is the first apprentice ever to ride steadily for the noted turfman from Anna, 111. Risley rode five winners last year and had 102 this season going into todays races. . . . Jockey E. J. Knapp will ride Brookmeade Stables Picador in Saturdays Meadowland Handicap and jpekey Charley Burr will be on Sunglow. AAA Mrs. John Hcckmann, mother of the jockey, is visiting here from her home in New Orleans. She is accompanied by Hcckmanns sister and his two aunts. . . Jockey Doug Dodson will ride Harold Bcckmans Happy Go Lucky in the Washington Park Handicap. . . . Darby Dans filly, Clear Dawn, will be sent back to Atlantic City after filling her engagement in the Princess Pat Stakes. . . . The three-year-old filly, Foxie Fish, has been purchased from J. J. Gregory by Reverie Knoll Farm and will bo sent to Danville, Ky., where she will be bred during the coming season. . . . Richard Kepler, father of trainer K. D. Kepler, is visiting from his home in Sidney, Nebr. . . . Wayne Swezey, who has horses here- in charge of A. E. Mettz, is in from his home in Cherokee, Iowa, for a few days of the sport. . . . Kenney Noe proudly displayed a photograph of himself in jockey togs snapped about 25 years ago we found it in an old trunk. Says it looks just like Kenney, Jr. . . . Harry Porter, press box attendant here, is a brother of Cliff Porter, who at one time trained the good mare, Flying Lill for Charley Cleary, Chicago owner. AAA Trainer R. D. Jackson has been transferred from Michael Reese Hospital to Hines Hospital. One of the owners of the Jacnot Stable, for whom Jackson trained prior to his illness, is J. R. Hogan, Chicago insurance company executive. . . . Jockey agent Joe Colombo is still confined to Holy Cross Hospital, Chicago, and would be glad to hear from friends. . . . Elmer Hess, the trainer who was stricken with polio last year, is progressing slowly, is at Hines Hospital. . . . The ducks in the infield lake do more squawking than the Daily Double players. Sometimes Louis Meen cant hear himself think. Says he will be glad when he gets to Hawthorne, where the lake will be stocked with goldfish. "Who ever heard a goldfish squawk?" asks Louis. . . . Trainer Harold O. Simmons will ship 14 of the horses in his care to Atlantic City on September 5 . He will leave 10 here in charge of his brother, P. E. Simmons, and they will be campaigned at Hawthorne. AAA Executive director Benjamin Lindheimer looked mighty good on that TV show with Arch Ward the other cve- Continucd on Page Thirty-Nine Washington Notebook By J. J. MURPHY Continued from Page Forty-Eight ning. . . . John W. Galbreath, owner; Jack Long, trainer, and Harrison Wilson, jockey, got. in Tuesday to aid and abet the performance of the filly, "Clear Dawn, in todays Princess Pat Stakes. . . . Trainer Norman "Yorkie" McLeod was a visitor here on Tuesday, coming in from Saratoga. He is severing connections with the Saxon i Stable of Bill Prestridge and Riley Allison the latter part of this month. McLeod de-: veloped such stakes runners as Invigorator and Marcador for the Saxon Stable, and states he has had several offers to take over other training chores. He expected to return to Saratoga late today. . . . The Rex Ellsworth stable has a staunch supporter in track announcer Hal Moore. Those Cali-forniaris stick together. . . . Received card from Cliff Abbo from down New Orleans way. AAA At the end of three weeks of racing here, John Adams had ridden 87 horses, and his san, John, Jr., 86 Each has 10 winners, but John, Sr., had finished second five times more than John, Jr., while Junior had finished third three times more than "Pops." . . . Sedgeview, a six-year-old, is probably the biggest money-winning Illinois-bred now in training. He had earned 3,795.
