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Apprentice Walter Blum To Ride at ThistleDown Jockey Colony at Ohio Track to Include Many Top Ranking Boys THISTLEDOWN, Warrensville, Ohio, May 29. — Apprentice Walter Blum, 19-year-old native of Brooklyn, will head the local jockey colony at the forthcoming 42-day meeting which gets under way on Tuesday. Blum is under contract to Hirsch Jacobs and has been leased to Wilmer C. Ensor for the ThistleDown session. The youthful saddle star broke his maiden last July 29 aboard Tuscania during the Saratoga-at-Jamaica meeting. Since that time Blum has either been the leading rider or near the top at the tracks he has ridden which include Pimlico, Bowie, Laurel, Belmont Park, Jamaica, Aqueduct and Santa Anita. While at the latter track last winter he wound up as the leading apprentice and was third in the final jockey standings. Blum was aboard Hocotia in Saturdays Gold Cup at Ascot Park and then immediately left for Garden State where he will fulfill a stakes engagement on Memorial Day. Blum will then return to Cleveland and be on hand for opening day. Jockey Joe Servis, one of the most popular riders in this section of the country, will once again be back in the Cleveland area after considerable success last year while at Both Randall Park and ThistleDown. Servis has been winning races consistently this season during the Maryland season and it is expected that the native Philadelphian will be near the top when the final jockey standings are tabulated for ThistleDown. Al Widman, who has been riding in New York, will arrive here over the week-end and plans to swing into action on Tuesday. As an apprentice Widman was under contract to the Spring Hill Farm of James D. Norris. Louis Syfrig won many followers in the Cleveland area last summer though overshadowed by the sensational William Har-tack. He was well up on the list at Randall Park and then at ThistleDown last fall wound up in a tie with Edward Plesa for the honors. Syfrig was injured in a spill during the Ascot Park meeting, but has been galloping horses for the past few days and is in fine physical condition once again. Gail Parker who made a runaway of the jockey race at Ascot Park will try his luck in the Cleveland area for the first time. Parker will handle the horses trained by Marvin Greene which includes the fast Col-umcille who ran the fastest six furlongs of the Ohio season last year of 1:10 Vs. Others riders that have indicated that they will ride at ThistleDown are Eddie Plesa, John Nazareth, William Carstens, Al Whiting, Benny Serido and Ralph Borge-menke. Plesa, by the way, rode Royal Note the day he broke his maiden at Hot Springs. t
