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horses,” Aitcheson said of his father, known to friends as Leiter. “He fanned this land, and hunted his own farmer pack of hounds back in the old days. They all did back then.”
Leiter Aitcheson had been the star pitcher at the University of Maryland, and he was recruited by the old Brooklyn Dodgers. After a year in New York, he returned home to the Baltimore Orioles for four years. He was then sent to a minor league team in Illinois, but when he lost his investment capital in the stock market crash of 1929, Leither returned to the family farm in Maryland and took back up with the horses.
The senior Aitcheson soon saw an innate riding ability in his young son, and he provided Joe with his first racing mounts at age 14. “The three big horse shows in our area, Montgomery County, Howard County and the Iron Bridge shows, would hold a flat race and a timber race after the showing was over for the day,” recalled the junior Aitcheson. “It was ‘bush league’ racing for sure, but it was good for experience. 1 knew I wanted to ride ... from when I’d go up to the Laurel course and watch those jumping races.”
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