For a jockey to score a "triple"ride three winners in an afternoonis not unusual. Nonetheless, even to jockeys as able as young Hank Mills, it is gratifying. Hank Mills had particularly good reason to feel pleased about his triple with The Heathen, Euclid and Bodkin in the closing week of the Jamaica. L. I. race meeting last week. It was his second triple of the meeting; it put him back in the running for riding honors at the course; and it substantiated his claim to being, at 17, the leading U. S. jockey...
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