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...grey day at Jamaica last week, Jockey Gordon Glisson booted home his 249th winner of the year. No other U.S. jockey was close to him in the race to ride the most winners of 1949.* Half an hour later, while Glisson was trying for No. 250, he got in a jam on the far turn and his mount stumbled. He was pitched out of the saddle and lay still in the dirt until the ambulance arrived...
...Glisson's first spill since four horses piled up in the stretch at Belmont Park last June. That day, with one jockey hurt and two others stunned, he walked calmly back to the jockeys' room where an excited doctor exclaimed: "That was a pretty bad spill." Glisson, dirty and dusty, stared at the doc with cold, blue eyes and said matter-of-factly: "I've seen worse." At 18, he has the kind of unshakable coolness that makes him a standout among the hard-boiled little men he rides against...
...Blue Grass Stakes, Old Rockport had the same jockey who rode him to victory in the Santa Anita, sensational young (18) Apprentice Gordon Glisson. But soon after the four-horse field charged from the starting gate, Glisson found himself boxed in by three veteran riders, Johnny Longden, Ted Atkinson and Conn McCreary. The cagey veterans had the young "bug" rider where they wanted him, and they kept him there...
...Glisson eased back, snuggled the rail and waited for an opening. In the stretch, Old Rockport finally moved out from the rail. But either the horse failed to respond with a 4-5 effort, or Glisson was too smart to use his colt up with the $100,000 Derby only nine days...
...handicap 5 feet); 210-yard dash, Brooks, 24s.; 440-yard dash, Ferris, 55s. Freshmen-100-yard dash, Meacham, 11 1-5s.; 120-yard dash, hurdle race, Ludington, 21 1-2s.; running broad jump, Ludingington, 18 feet; mile run; Pettee, 5m. 12 3-4s.; 220-yard dash, Glisson, 25 1-2s.; putting shot, Coxe, 34 feet 1 inch; throwing the hammer, Coxe, 82 feet 1-2 inch...