Salt Lake Telegram | 1951-01-05 | Page 22 | Jockey Johnny Gilbert Hurt in Bad Fall at Santa Anita

i Jockey Johnny Gilbert Hurt I n Bcd Bad aU c at Santa Anita I ARCADIA Cal Jan 5 The A The riding career of veteran jockey I I Johnny Gilbert has been temporarily tern tem I I halted hailed by a fracture of ofa off offa I a cervical vertebra suffered in arace a arace race at Santa Anita park Thurs Thurs- day Gilbert 36 was thrown heavily to the track at the three-eighths three pole as his mount crashed into Calumet farms farm's fill filly I Little Cindy The filly Illy had snapped a foreleg while running with the thele le leaders ders in the sixth race Spin- Spin around moving mowing up fast was unable unable unable un un- able to avoid the injured fill filly Gilbert was carried off the track on a stretcher and taken to the Santa Anita hospital hosp tal Still unconscious unconscious cious he was moved to Pasadena's Huntington memorial hospital where X rays showed the fracture i He regained regain d consciousness however however however how how- ever and was resting comfortably early Friday Jockey Steve Brooks on Little Cindy was unhurt Gilbert contract rider for movie director V William Goetz was scheduled scheduled scheduled sched sched- to ride Goetz star Your Host in Saturdays Saturday's Santa Catalina handi handi- cap Gilbert had ridden Your Host Hostin in his successful comeback races after failing in the Kentucky derby Gilbert is married and has two I children Five years ago yesterday esterday Georgie I Woolf one of oC the turfs turf's greatest riders was fatally injured at Santa Anita on the horse Please Me I