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Twenty Years Ago Today Chief Turf Events of Nov. 30, 1902 No racing today, Sunday. Jockey T. Knight has left Cincinnati for San Francisco to ride for the Chinn and For-sythe stable during the winter meetings in California. Pink Coat, the American Derby winner of 1898, has broken down completely and has been retired to the stud at Woodford and Buck-ner farm near Paris, Ky. Word came from Covington, Ky., today that Gold Ornament, one of the best two-year-olds of the year, had to be destroyed after being badly injured in an attempt to have the filly fired. Henry Gerhardy, the well-known trainer of the stable of W. H. Jackson, owner of Belle Meade Stud, has resigned his position with that establishment to accepted a similar place with J. B. Haggin. President Tom Williams announced that California racing would begin at Oakland January 5 and continue there until February 6, then will open at Ingleside on February 7 for a meeting lasting to February 28, after which Oakland will again be the scene. The fourteen yearlings of John A. Drake quartered at Cumberland Park, Nashville, are reported to be the finest band of young horses seen in the South for some time. Enoch Wish-ard tried them out last week and found several of them exceptionally promising.
