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LEADING JOCKEY AT SEVENTEENIvan Parke Ha* Made His Reputation in HU First Year on the TrackIvan Parke, reigning s.l^db* star was handed X lll-dny•«*-pension for ine«tn|H't«fleV anil disobedience tin- first lime IP* lt;*v-appenred at a racingf tinnier.' Hut that was a long tithe ago, measured in terms of hi#' 6»lt;teorie riiro-r. In fact, i* was March. 1923. At the ond oT the same year he led nil American riders, having won 173 rat es in 724 contests. IP-a nearest competitor. M'ter Walls. had ridden 149 Ini 74S chances.from a Doclo, Ithiho, school hoy to ih loading jockey rtf the land within a. year is a long try. XV. (b Jenkins .soldier nf fortuneOoldfiold mint r, some time furn-1... i t .... . - iJtItuyc dealer of Poise, Idaho, hail developed P.urloy Parke, older brother of Ivan’s during 1921. and j sold his c.«|i tract to the Nevada -tock farm stahle, owned by for- J m*r t'niietl states Senator George ’ L. Wicgflt Id. The furniture bus-iness in Boise was poor. Jenkins do. itU-d gather a -mall string q and another potential rider for a Tin Juana campaign.Back to the Parke ranch went w j Jenkins to ple.ul f«.r three hour* n I heforlt; klt; finally induced the boy's ( j parents to sign over their only jr (the: ylt; n. Some Goldfjeld mira- ^c.le n havt i Jlt; nkin s *tfjngiC i) atisu the Pfirke- are dev .r M ir:i s, of stupt Englishstock.They reached Tia Juatm on No-vemher a . lt;| Ivan went to work ^ under two taskmasters, for Ma v Jenkins had Join d the thrlt; e-horse .|I op-i-1'ohf'iOd: In rhie c,p nzar; eti le of , tht» Jenkins* csiahil.-hmXflt fllen-zar got home with a nose to spare ( ovyr U e n Girl, and Ivan had » i graduated. He rode 2- winners he- * i ft rc the end of the Iywcr Cali- j ■ lorn la season. nMono Goldblatt. trainer of the-Ken^uckv division of Payne Whitney stahlethe Harry *]syne Whitney stahle as well as a campaigner of a pretentious string j under his own colors saw Ivan j ride at *he Lexington spring meet- s j ing and se . ■lt;! unusual uhilky in ?lie evenly balanced slt;at, smooth , i hands, alert post behavior displayed by the lad. Following an er-c.hangt of $ 1 .udo anil Ivan * Parke left l*;t and Ma Jenkins to straddle speedier horfwa than he 1 had ever lK-fone mounted.I.ouisvilbt, with its several 1 movie th.-a‘res. soft mnttrefc.il un-1 der freshly laundered hotel linen.a well sclo oh-d mentor In the per-| son of Robert Bauer, the r.old-IVailt man-of-a 11‘affairs and n new world opened to Idaho’s till-1 usual son.| A month uf inactivity when ! the (Joldhlatfs string was shipped hack from Kmpire City to Ashland, the track that failed to onrn « per adyerti-1 ment, and then Kentucky's fall shason.I The Barnuni A Bailey show wasnever hooked with greater care thgn had been bestowed upon the t selection of Perke's mount? dur-, in* the ^ast few months. Ciockety,. reports, handi. upper's crsuUs and ■ nthivi infc rmation nry.* clfi.vfuHv ’ compiled before llilt; VOdiijfcstfir s t services becom# available for out -nide mounts. During fhit JylJterson I. meeting Ivan rod.; 49 fring^rs ia- rtie. 2 S racing da.vs. £■.,I liis contra' I passed fvom Gob)-* blutt to Hnrvy Payne Wnlfney List summer and James rtnwe, Urnt Whitney manager. has decided- that Ivan ought to sp.fid another ' season in K. ntucky before bringing him Cast to compete with San d('s. Factors, McAtees, Turners and* other starsThe little wisp of a !):! pounder 1 ceichrated his seventeenth birth day on November last. IT* !s am-1 bilious to become a ranch owner.■ | Meanwhile he has taken a wide i lead on the Fair Grounds riding list and bids fair to establish a 1 winter record new to American ; racing
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Paris Morning News
Paris, Texas, US
Sun, Feb 03, 1924
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