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Twenty Years Ago Today Chief Turf Events of Dec. 13, 1902 Racing at New Orleans and Ingleside. Durnell and Herz, who recently claimed Sar-ner out of a selling race at New Orleans from John W. Schorr, have returned the horse to his former owner. Sarner is a hard horse to train and Durnell, rather than take the risk of breaking him down, accepted a small profit on the investment. Charles Thorpe, an American jockey, somc- times called by his youthful rivals "Grandpa" Thorpe, has just arrived in this country from France, where he has been riding the past two years. Eddie Jones, C. Gray and B. Rigby, who also have been riding in France and Hungary, returned on the same vessel with Thorpe. Eastern parties, the. identity of whom Major T. J. Carson of Dixiana Farm, Lexington, refuses to reveal, have secured a thirty-day option on the sister to Eugenia Burch, dam of Cudgel, the weanling bay filly by Ben Strome The Humber, by Breadknife. For this reason Mr. Carson has been compelled to refuse to name a price for his valuable filly to Fox-hall P. Keene, who also is making overtures for her purchase. At New Orleans, the Preliminary Derby was the magnet that drew an immense crowd to the Fair Grounds. Fifteen horses answered the bugle call and some of the best two-year-olds of the year paraded. Pride of Endurance, Henry McDaniel, and Kittaning coupled with Sweet Alice in the betting, were the most fancied by the public, but M. II. Tichenor furnished the winner when his fill-, Flocar-line, galloped home an easy winner. The future of Kcnilworth Park, Buffalo, is shrouded in mystery. At present it is in the hands of the sheriff, but there is talk that several combinations stand ready to buy it. There is also a rumor that leading men in the Jockey Club, acting on the advice of S. S. Howland, may buy the track and run it along New York lines. The report that John J. Ryan, who is attempting to get up a circuit of outlaw tracks, will include Kenilworth Park is disbelieved, inasmuch as it would be im- j possible to conduct such a meeting within the confines of the State of New York, where the racing commission is supreme. W. R. Van Kcuren, who purchased the old Linden track in New Jersey recently, is the man who some time ago bought the Mon- mouth Park track for 40,000. Van Keuren built the new Monmouth Park track and, when I he bought it at auction, it was generally believed that he had a "white elephant" on his hands. But he proceeded to break up the big iron grandstand and got rid of ninety-jfive j tons at 0 per ton. After disposing of j the other buildings and renting the land he j i soon got his money back and now owns the property, which has greatly increased in value. ; ;Mr. Van Keuren said after buying the Linden track that he would use it for manufacturing j purposes.
