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Show Les Hulet is named "Rider of the Week" Feb. 20 to 27 at Arizona Downs, Phoenix As principal of one of Iron County's schools, Don Apple-gate Apple-gate knew his role as guidance guid-ance counselor some years ago. He took one look at Leslie Les-lie J. Hulet, and he had him sized up pretty well. So begins a story concern-in concern-in one of Parowan's young men, as it appeared a week ago in a Phoenix, Ariz, paper. Owning and training some quarter horses at the time Ap- plegate wanted some one to ride them, and Hulet looked like a jockey. Well Ihe 23-year-old Mormon Mor-mon hasn't been able to get off the horses ever since. Although Al-though he got his early training train-ing on quarter horses, Hulet didn't really get hooked on them, the paper says. From there the story goes this way. He didn't like riding quarter quar-ter horses since they always wanted to run in one lane. And as horses always want t run along the rail, you spend all of your time keeping them in their own lane. While still a senior at Par-ovan Par-ovan High School Hulet got some early training on what it feels like to get beat in a photo finish. Wrestling as a im pounder he reached the finals fi-nals of the Utah State championships cham-pionships only to get boat on a referee's decision. Adding to his woes was the fact that he had beaten his opponent earlier in the season. After having spent almost five years in the "bushes" in Utah, Hulet made his first appearance at a recognized track when he came to Turf Paradise last year. For the present Arizona Downs campaign Hulet finds himself as a somewhat desired commodity and he and Curtis Levine are virtually the only apprentice riders to have displayed dis-played much saddle savvy. Ive found having the bug i (5-pound apprentic e allowance, allow-ance, is especially beneficial this year", "Last year there were around 30 bug riders around and I remember the race where eight of ton jockeys jock-eys were apprentices." Hulet isn't discovering the winner's circle a often as he did during his stint in the i "bushes" when he rode around ! 300 winners, but as any good ! jockey knows he's determined to keep chasing the front run-! ners in the stretch. j During the wick of Feb. 20 to 27 at Turf Taradise in Phoenix Phoe-nix he rode three winning horses, more than any other jockey on the track, and for this he was named the Jockey of the work. During the week he rode 16 horses. One of Mulct's wins was ; on a long shot which paid S63 for a two dollar ticket ' The hoc, Abbey's Star was I an rasy winner in the race. i That week Les rode 16 hordes jaai wca oa thit cf thun. i i ririnpiiiip pro T" -; LUUi- j ; frifeki J j t ; 'y- t T- A,yMf;'i.j. m 'rt-V . '" : IN WINNER'S CIRCLE. Yavapai Can-yon, Can-yon, race horse, owned by Walter K. Granger, is shown on far right, following fol-lowing win at Arizona Downs, Phoenix race track. Up on the horse is Les Unlet, Un-let, Parowan jockey. And in the group at left can be seen Mr. and Mrs. Walter Walt-er Granger and Evan Sullivan. Walt trains his horses and runs them regularly regu-larly at the Arizona track This race was a tlx furlong event, run in 1:11.4. |