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Twenty Years Ago Today Chief Turf Events of Dec. 14, 1902 Sunday, no racing. Jockey Rice has been engaged to ride for the Featherstone Stable at the present New Orleans meeting. Carter Hall has signed to train a stable of horses in Austria next year. He will leave for the other side early in February. The horses comprising the main string of T. II. Stevens for 1903 have been shipped from Walnut Hall Stud, Lexington, Ky., to Litth Rock, Ark., in charge of their owner, who will winter and train them there. There were fifteen horses in the string. Captain W. H. May and his son, "Bub" May, who have developed and raced so many good horses in the last few years, both East and West, will have an extensive string out again in 1903. They have nine yearlings already that will race as two-year-olds in 1903. Jockey Martin saw Aceful on that colts arrival in England and took a good look at the horse he will ride in next years Epsom Derby, if no accident prevents. The colt, that now belongs exclusively to H. B. Duryea by virtue of H. P. Whitneys sale of his half interest, aroused much attention at Newmarket and the critics spoke well of him. Martin thinks that the most prominent Derby candidates are several colts in the stable that Danny Maher rides for. Turfmen who have just reutrned from England say that the great rivalry between W. C. Whitney and James R. Keene will create no end of interest over there next year. With the engagement of jockey Lucien Lyne at a salary of 0,000 a year to ride on the other side, Mr. Keene completed arrangements for what he intends to be a most successful campaign. Mr. Whitney recently secured "Skeets" Martin to ride on the British tracks for next year and his trainer, John Huggins, already has a string of high-class racers under his wing, including H. B. Duryeas Aceful.
