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______________ . New Jersey Report By FRED GALIANI Sons Saddle Debut Thrills Father Don Brurhfield Handles First Mount Gives Good Description of Running GARDEN STATE PARK, Camden, N. J., May 29. — Eddie Brumfield has been training horses for some years now, but not even even the the best best he he had had ______________ even even the the best best he he had had could have afforded him the thrill he received yesterday when his 16 - year - old son, Donald, made his riding debut. As long as he could remember, Donald wanted to be a jockey and he did not wait long until launching his career. A boy has to be 16 to ride, and Donald just turned that mark on May 24. It would be nice to report that he won his first race, but that was not to be. He finished eighth on a horse called Peripoise. But let him tell the story of his first race in his own words. Just as any jockey reports to a trainer after the race and gives him the version of the running, so did Donald. In this case, it was father and son. "He broke all right, but then turned his head and pulled himself up. It looks like he has a tender mouth. I hit him at the five-eighths pole and he started to run along: the rail and at the quarter pole I thougrht we were going: to be third. Right after that another horse came over on us and I hollered, for room. When he took off, I hit Peripoise again but he wouldnt do any more running: then." „ "Well, thats a pretty good description," smiled his father, while Mrs. Brumfield looked on with parental affection. "Did I finish all right dad?" asked the younger Brumfield. "You certainly did," answered his father. Donald was born in Nicholasville, Ky., and coming into a racing family and being of slight build, there was only one way for him to turn. At eight he was walking hots arid at 11 he was galloping horses when not in school. After nine years of education, he turned his attention solely to racing. He-only weights 92 pounds now. In his debut he had to carry 106 pounds and as he said, "I weighed in at 92%, so I drank a bottle of soda and got to 93." The race was his first taste of actual competition. The closest he came to performing in any sort of competition was in workouts, drilling horses in company. Though it was his debut, he denied any tension. "I wasnt nervous at all," he said, "I wanted to take a nap before the race but all the beds in jocks room were taken. Favorable comments from turf folk " were made on the youngsters first ride and it looks like a future is beckoning. His book will be handled by Camillo Marin. When asked when he would ride again, his father replied, "when we dig Continued on Page Seventeen NEW JERSEY REPORT By FRED GALIANI Continued from Page Five up another mount for him." Brumfield, who well known in his own sphere as trainer of the good sprinter Due de Fer and others, will ship to Monmouth after the close here. Robert Iiytle, owner of Correlation, and his wife are week end guests of Dick Thorn-berg, executive director of station WCATJ ... Joe Morris of the admission department came out to say hello to his fellow employees, having missed working this meeting for the first time in nine years. Morris was just released from* Cooper Hospital, Camden, where he underwent a stomach operation . Paul Kelley will skip the Delaware meeting and ship to Monmouth for the session although he might van a few horses to the Stanton course. Blue Grail, the dam of George Wid-eners Cerulia, who ran here Friday, was sold by Kelley to Henry Knight for 2,000 some years ago ... Joe Culmone will don Alfred Vanderbilts silks for the first time in Jersey when he pilots Outsmart in the Colonial Handicap Monday. Frank Gilpin has shipped four horses to Delaware but the star of the string, the undefeated Royal Noteis heading for Monmouth. Royal Note will be transferred to Delaware just before the running of the Dover Stakes . . . Sammy Boulmctis, only one winner behind Willie Hartack in the jockey race at the start of todays program, has a 14-karat chance to go into the lead. Hartack traveled to Delaware to ride Pet Bully for his contract employer, leaving- Sam in command of the field here. *
