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Balmoral »- By J. J. Murphy Keith Stuart Personable Young Rider Local Jockeys Glad Oyer Erbs Mount Elmendorf, Rice Units to Arlington WASHINGTON PARK, Homewood, HI., June 10.— A personable young man riding at this track is Keith Stuart, the regular jockey for Sam Tufanos good stakes vvxoe ivitugin. i.eiwi IS riding over the Washington Park strip for the first time at the current meeting, although he piloted Wise Margin in a stake at Lincoln Fields last spring. Stuart, who is 22 years old, comes from Hamilton, Bermuda, where he began his career as a jockey at the Shelley Bay track in 1946. He came to the United States in 1949, and the following year rode his first American TOinnor of +V10 New Orleans Fair Grounds and went on to become one of the leading apprentices on New York tracks. He had 122 winners that season. Stuart has ridden Wise Margin to victory in seven important stakes, including the Massachusetts Handicap, the Gulfstream Park Handicap, and the Lettelier at the Fair Grounds. The Tufano runner takes kindly to Keith, and the boy takes kindly to him, although they did not fare so well in the recent Citation Handicap. Aside from his success on Wise Margin, Stuart has won the Suburban and the Grey Lag in New York and other important events. He is the only rider we can recall having come from Hamilton, Bermuda, although a number have hailed from Hamilton, Canada, including Chris Rogers, Chuck Lang, Frankie Mann, Tommy Brooks, Dick Annesley, Louie Aron, and the McDermott boys. Stuart is tall .for ajockey, is blondish, and is unmarried. The line forms to the right," girls.
