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Balmoral Riding Colony To Draw Erb7 Other Stars Needles Jockey Scheduled to Guide Dogoon in LaSalle Monday HOMEWOOD, 111., May 8.— Jockey Dave Erb, who stole the racing spotlight last Saturday with a smashing Kentucky Derby victory aboard Needles, arrives at Washington Park this week for full-time riding assignments during the Balmoral meeting which opens next Monday. Erb will remain for the Arlington and Washington sessions and will be absent only when assignments astride Needles take him to other points. He is scheduled to ride Dogoon in the LaSalle Handicap here on opening day. Erb will join such other riders as Steve Brooks, leading Balmoral rider in 1955; Johnny Adams, Kenny Church, William McKinley Cook, Al Popara, John Heck-mann, Ronnie Baldwin, Tony Skoronski, Larry Gilligan and others. Needles rider enjoyed his best campaign last year at Arlington and Washington Parks. This year, Erb will have one worry, if it might be called that. The 33-year-old saddlesmith is the regular rider also for E. Gay Drakes Swoons Son, a ranking contender for the three-year-old! championship, and Erb will have to choose I ! uouween Needles and Swoons Son if and when they clash. Erb will be aboard Swoons Son, whom he rode to victory in both the Arlington and Washington Park futurities last year, in both the 5,000 added Domino Stakes, May 26, and the 0,000 added Chicagoan at one mile, June 9. Jockeys Al Popara and Steve Brooks, who were aboard Come On Red and Count Chic, third and fourth respectively in the Derby also will be on hand Monday. A new crop of promising "bug-boys" will ply their trade at Balmoral, .headed by C. Wayne Beck, under contract to the Fred Hooper stable, and Nick Barile, who will handle mounts for trainer John Wozrfeski.
