Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-28
SECURE SERVICES
OF CRACK RIDER
JOCKEY SWAIN TO RIDE FOR
DENNY STABLE
Racing Firm Purchases Contract for
First Call on Promising Boy.
Several Carloads Of
Horses Arrive

Jockey e. Swain will in future ride
for Denny Brothers, stable and will
have the mounts on their horses at
Ascot this season.
The contract for SWANS services
was held by j. f. Baker until Saturday,
yesterday in pursuance of an agree
ment made the day before. The con-
tract has eighteen months to run.
Swain is regarded as a crack rider,
and his value Is further enhanced by
the fact that he can ride at eighty
pounds and ~ a strong boy at that
weight.
During the summer he scored a great
success on the Canadian circuit, and
was third on the list of winning
Jockeys at the Latonia meeting, having
the highest percentage OF winners as
compared with the number of mounts
of any Jockey at that meeting.
Denny Brothers have string of
high class runners at Ascot and the
stable will be an important factor in
the meeting Among their good ones
is Santon, which has been entered in
all stakes to which he is eligible, which
beat all the good ones at Latonia and
conceded weight in nearly all these
races.
Other good ones in the Denny string
are Two Bills, Euba and Astrea. Sew
eral 2year-ods and yearling are also
in their string and will be heard from
during the season.
Starter Dick Dwyer is expected to
arrive today from Nashville, where he
officiated until Saturday.
Washington are quartet of good boys
who arrived from Emeryville and will
have mounts during the Ascot sea-
son.
Harry Stover, who owned Kenil-
worth when that big sprinter was reg
ularly beating all of them, is in from
Oakland with small string of bread
winners.
Jockey Bulman has changed his
mind about coming to Ascot and will
remain at Emeryville for the present,
although he says it is his intention to
accept mounts at Ascot later in the
season.
w. T. Anderson and Mike Donovan
were among the arrivals from Emery
willie yesterday, bringing their stables
for the Ascot season. Including Harry
Stover's shipment, the horses occupied
three cars.
Jockey liver of st. Louis is among the
recent additions to the riding colony
and will be valuable boy among the
free lance riders. He ranked well
among the leaders the past season and
is capable Of holding his own with
most of them.
Joe Kelly, the clever Jockey who has
had fair share of success in competi-
ton with the Radtkes, Mlllers and
Knapps at Oakland. will come to Ascot
and ride this season, despite the an
nouncement to the contrary. He will
arrive Thursday morning.
Col. A. w. Hamilton. presiding judge
of the Ascot meeting, arrived yesterday
from his home at Mt, Sterling KY.
Col. Hamilton is an optimist regarding
the prospects for a successful season,
and expresses himself as delighted to
be back in Los Angeles for the winter
]. L. McGinnis has his entire stable
at Ascot since the recent arrival of the
final shipment of his horses, Among
them are Austin Allen, which is the
McGinnis candidate for the Jonathan
club handicap; Athlone, which is in
the Santa Catalina selling stakes, and
Hermitage the sensational 2-year- old
of the eastern season.
Santon, Denny Brothers crack horse
and sole candidate of the stable for the
Jonathan club handicap, may not go to
the post in the initial stake. While
returning from the track to the stable
yesterday, after working a mile in 40
he pulled up lame. Santon has worked
better than any other candidate for
this stake and was the good thing"
of the railbirds.
Owners of mud hens wore great
smiles as the little drops Of water
trcllled upon the track yesterday and
beheld Authorizations of their bears
walking away with the choice purses
on opening day. The rains prevented
the usual workouts and the main track
he the "velvet path for which it is
famed when the band plays the open
ing overture"
Boots Durnell has arrived from New
York with the remainder of his strong
string of performers. In the shipment
are NeWmown Hay, Golden Rule,
Brother Frank, Astral IT, which won
several stakes here last season, and
Lotus. which was acquired recently
for $4,000. Durnell has several other
high class runners in his stables and
will annex his share of the purses for
which he will contest. Jockey Wiley
comes with the horses and will have
the important mounts for the stable
this season.
A Bunch of Grapes