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Arlington Park r By J. J. Murphy Alfonso Coy Makes Fans Take Notice Wins With Longshot in First Outing Spur On to Strive for Michigan Mile ARLINGTON PARK, Arlington Heights, III., June 29. Who is Alfonso Coy was the question being bandied about by the patrons following the running of the final race here Tuesday. Coy had just ridden Romango to a five lengths victory and the gelding paid 5.40. Had the fans, been aware of the fact that Alfonso has ridden almost 200 winners, his mount might not, have been overlooked. The boy, one of the lightest jockeys on the grounds at 100 pounds, is 20 years of age and a native of Mt. Pleasant, Pa., where his parents reside. He is under contract "to Frank Fitzgerald, who recently arrived here from Ohio and Romango was not his longest -priced winner. He once rode a horse that paid 16.00. Coy has been riding for about four years, all of them for Fitzgerald. His first success came aboard Slip o Ned at ThistleDown in October of 1953. That was a fast ride, as Slip o Ned set a mile and a quarter track record in the event. The mark still stands. This is his first appearance in Chicago and Romango was his very first mount here. Alfonso is a personable young fellow of Italian extraction, and in his comparatively short spell on the turf has had his share of bad luck. He suffered a broken arm in a spill early in his career and later was laid up for four months with a broken ankle. Due to the accidents he was given an extension on his apprentice allowance, but is now a full-fledged jockey. The young man is married but has no children as yet. Wilson Aboard Georgian in Warren Wright Jockey Harrison B. Wilson has been engaged to ride Hal Price Headleys stakes winning three-year-old Georgian in Saturdays Warren Wright Memorial Handicap. . . . Fabius, a son of Citation, owned by Calumet Farm, will go to the post here Thursday and, of all horses, will be- asked to meet a runner named Ben A. Jones. It. will be recalled that Ben A. Jones, the man, is a Calumet trainer. The horse is owned by Carrie Hillock, wife of a former Calumet Farm horse-shoer. . . . Mr. and Mrs. Ed Lasker, owners of By Zeus, are coming from California to view Mondays Stars and Stripes Handicap in which their star thoroughbred will be a starter. . . . Eddie Anspach, trainer of Star Rover, a Wright Memorial candidate, is expected to arrive Thursday. Star Rover and his traveling companion, Impromptu, owned by the Brookfield Farm, checked in in good condition. . . . M. L. Stucker, owner of several runners here, got in from Detroit. The gray gelding, Yellmantown, who is racing in good form at the age of eight, at one time held a track record at Hawthorne. . . . Frank Butzow, who recently celebrated his forty-first wedding anniversary, states that on his wedding day he saw placing judge Vasco Parke ride in a race at Blackf oot, Idaho. Vasco says he didnt start riding until two years later. . . . Nimble Doll, who recently finished third in the Cleopatra Handicap, has been sent to Danada Farm to be rested up. Is owned by Mrs. Ada L. Rice. . . . The two-year-old, Idolita, has been sent to Detroit to be placed in charge of A. Cleff by trainer C. D. Glazier. . . . Mrs. Anita Monaghan arrived from her home in Denver to view Scents race; in Wednesdays Myrtlewood Handi- cap, while N. M. Monaghan, one of the owners of Scent, is in California looking over some of his young racing stock quartered at the ranch of George and Connie Ring. ... It was announce" by the racing secretary that scratch time for the Fourth of July program would be at 4 p.m. Sunday. Marshal Ney II. in Stars and Stripes The veteran stakes runner, Spur On, owned by M. Affeld, will be shipped to Detroit within the next few days to fulfill his engagement in the Michigan Mile, a race that he won last year. He will be ridden in the Motor City affair by Arnold Kirkland, who will have completed his suspension by Saturday. . . . Its not the horses that are worrying trainer Kenneth Kepler, its the floods and tornadoes they are having around his home town of Torrington, Wyo. The imported racer, Marshal Ney H., in the stable of Mrs. Joseph Tomlin-son, is expected to make his first start in this country in the Stars and Stripes Handicap next Monday and he will be ridden by jockey Bennie Green. . . . Moon Jet, a fouryear-old gelding owned by Frank Sherman, Hamilton, On., steel magnate, has been shipped to Joe Marinelli at ThistleDown by trainer Jimmy Jones. Sherman, who operates the Shermanow Farm in Ontario, is a one-time employer , of the writer, having served as a time-keeper, at his plant in our youth. Clarence C. Ortleib is visiting from his home in Fort Madison, Ky. His horses here are. in charge of Kenny Noe. And there is no chance for Noe to get a duck at this meeting. A couple of horses in his care have already won. . . . Trainer Frank Sanders says that if he does not win an event, he wants a pheasant, at least. . . . Quite an impressive array of two-year-old talent has been nominated for Mondays Hyde Park Stakes. -Main- Chance Farm has eight eligibles, and Mrs. Ada L. Rice, six. ... By Zeus ran the fastest mile and a sixteenth on the grass course this season when he traveled the route in 1:43, Tuesday. He was within two-fifths seconds of The Eagles track record. . . . W. J. Schmidt has purchased the sprinter Shifty Dora from E. R. Cirmack. . . . Hawthorne stakes books are out and are being distributed here by Tom Scott.
