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MRS ADA L RICE Indian Creek Carries Danada Colors Is Rices7 Second Starter in Derby DerbyChicagoans Chicagoans Maintain Two Farms Conway Trains Colt And Taniguchi Will Ride RideCHURCHILL CHURCHILL DOWNS Louisville Ky May 3 Daniel and Ada L Rice of Chi ¬ cago who maintain Danada Farm in Wheaton 111 and in Lexington Ky will be represented intheir second Derby to ¬ morrow in Indian Creek who ran fourth in Tuesdays Derby Trial The Rices only other starter was Model Cadet who ran seventh in 1949 Indian Creek is a home ¬ bred having been foaled at the farm in Kentucky which was formerly a part of the Idle Hour Farm of the late Col E R Bradley BradleyThe The Rice silks have been carried by such good horses as Snow Boots SirdeHie Heel Admiral Lea TVlodel Cadet and Pet Bully the latter winner of the Washington Park Handicap in 1954 They stand Olym pia and Model Cadet at their Kentucky Farm and the successful young sire Ad ¬ miral Lea at Conejo Ranch in California CaliforniaRice Rice is a broker specializing in grains and lias his principal office in Chicagos Board of Trade Building BuildingSaddled Saddled My Request in 1948 1948James James P Conway Rice stable trainer saddled Ben F Whitakers My Request to finish third back of Citation and Coaltown in the 1948 Derby Born in Richmond Hill NY not too far from the Aqueduct race track he broke into racing as a groom for trainer Frank Frisbie He later worked for the late Jack Howard and has remarked I probably learned more by working as a foreman for Howard than I ever learned from any other horseman horsemanLater Later he worked as stable foreman for Roy Waldron who saddled Gallahadion to win the 1940 Derby In 1946 he branched out on his own and was employed by Whit aker until his death in 1956 1956George George Taniguchi is the first Japanese American ever to pilot a contender in the Kentucky Derby Indian Creeks rider was 1 born in El Centro Calif the son of truck gardening parents When 14 he and his family moved to a relocation center in Arizona during the war warTaniguchi Taniguchi was studying dramatics and was to see a man at Hollywood Park about a role He didnt get to see the man be ¬ cause he couldnt get into the turf club But he saw the races and being small in stature figured he might become a jockey He worked as a farm hand at the J H Ryan farm then came under the wing of Larry Kidd and was a success from the start His best year was 1955 although he won the 100000 San Juan Capistrano with Bobby Brocato last year yearAlthough Although his father was born in Japan and his mother in Hawaii he is an Ameri ¬ can citizen by birth and a firm believer in American democracy BEST WISHES FOR A GREAT KENTUCKY KENTUCKYDERBY DERBY from Fairmount PARK U S HIGHWAY 40 COLLINSVILU ILL 1957 MEETING JULY 20 thru OCTOBER 12 POST TIME NO RACING MONDAYS EXCEPT LABOR DAY SEPTEMBER 2nd 215 PM Home of the 15000 Fairmount Handicap
