Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-26
Follows Dad
As Jockey
BY LEWIS II. WALTER

Horse racing has known few
sons who followed in their dads
stirrups as jockeys.
One OF the exceptions Is Harry
Hart. the little 19-year-old Paw
huska tOkla) householder, who
rode three. winners at the Detroit
track yesterday.
Young Hart has been around
the tracks since before he could
toddle at Tia Juana. Bay Mea-
dows and many a smaller western
track. His mother used TO hold
him up on the rail 10 watch his
dad. Claude. come whipping down
the stretch.
Whitley Belanger, boss OF the
Jockeys room at the Fair Grounds,
remembers young Hart tagging
after his dad around Tia Juana is
years ago.
ole was a very busy little
guy then and he hasn't changed
any, has ne ." said Whitley after
( Hart had scored with his third
straight winner yesterday.
GETS Up TO WIN
! After being tossed on his way
TO the post, Harry popped down
in the first race with SANITY,
which poked his nose in front of
the favored Foulard for a S34.40
payoff.
He came right back in the next
race with Sorbonne at $3.50.
That, incidentally. completed a
$199.20 daily double.
Then he kept Happy Joan In
front all the way for a $3.50
score in the third.
II cannot be omitted, however.
that he brought Trelawny, the
favorite. home last in the eighth.
Win or lose on Trelawny. II still
was Harry's best day on the race
tracks and he knows his dad In
Pawhuska will grin when he sees
the results-he still gets that
Form every day.
Dad Hart quit riding in 1887,
but he still Is a horseman. He Is
breaking yearlings at Pawhuska
for Fred Kuntz, the Kentuckian
who maintains breeding farms in
Kentucky and Oklahoma.
FEW COMBINATIONS
There are a variety OF reasons
why there have been few father
son Jockey combinations.
AS 10 the number. veteran stew
ards like James c. McGill can
remember offhand only Fred Taral
and Fred Jr., who rode before the
turn of the century for James r.
Keene: Tommy Burns. one OF the
nations best. who rode about
1903. and his son Tommy, who
rode about 1915.
Then there was Mack Gamers
dad. who still was galloping
horses at Louisville when Mack
was riding. along with brothers
GUY and Harry.
One of the reasons for the scar
city is the fact that jockeys have
TO be little men and the sons of
Jockeys are likely to be large.
Then fathers usually object TO
their sons following the same haz-
ardous occupation.
There was only half-hearted OBJ
lection in the case Of the Harris.
Little blue-eyed Harry Che
weighs about 100 is a natural
lightweight.
RIDING 2 YEARS
He started in two years ago
for Woolford Farm. the Kansas
City stable that produced the
Derby winner, Lawrin, when Ben
Jones was Harry Woolford's
trainer.
His first mount was Pick Out
al Tropical Park in AZ and he
rode his first winner, Inscolad. at
New Orleans later in the winter
Now Harry is with the stable
Of Harry Trotsek, one of the
smartest conditionerS az the track.
He's had 19 winners and is TAX
ing advantage of the absence OF
some of the tracks veterans TO
make little hay.
Hart did all right for himself
last season with 6S winners and
sos, III in purse money. Since the
meeting started he has picked up
10 and now is going his best.
No matter how little Harry's
luck goes. coincidence is running
for him. The man who runs the
restaurant most heavily patron
lied by race crackers also is
named Harry Hart.
"He says my name II good
for square meal In there any
time" smiles little Harry "But
I'm saving that cuff for another
day"