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t t t i j i j j j J . Twenty Years Ago Today Chief Turf Events of Dec. 15, 1902 Racing at New Orleans and Ingleside. Julius Bauer will within a day or two leave New York for Lexington to take in hand 1 twenty horses owned by Albert Featherstone. Reina, winner of the Brooklyn Handicap, will not be trained again. The stakes of the spring meeting of the New Louisville Jockey Club have been announced. They arc ten in number and include a new race to be known as the Merchants and Manufacturers Handicap. The stake will have 1,500 added and the distance will be one mile. Julius Fleischman, r.iayor of Cim.onat. an- not need that he wou:d devote a grent tle:d nf hi personal attention to racing n-ixt year. Jcbn W. Gates was u visitor at the Nci-r Or-le-iiis Irack and viewed some of the" ra;i.s from the McY.ids stand. Jockey Lucien Lync has made arrangements to sail for England on February 1 and will have the company of J. O. Keene, who is under contract to train next year for General M. E. Lazreff, a Russian millionaire. Jockey Lyne has been engaged to ride in England for James R. Keene and his contract begins on January 1. Though in perfect health at Lexington, Ky. the famous sire Deceiver, owned by the father of jockey Lucien Lyne, has all his food chopped up for him, even the hay he eats. Decei.er is twenty-three years old and, save the difficulty he has in masticating his food, he is as h-ile and Ltaity as he uas ten j-ears ago. W. C. Daly has been commissioned to teach the American riding style to lads from for- eign lands. Daly has a Hungarian lad named Dionysius Palfy now under his tutelage, who was sent here by his father, a lawyer in Hun- gary, to acquire the American habit of riding winners. Palfy has picked up a good deal since coming to this country and is promised good engagement in his own country when he returns to ride there. The project to mount the bones of the famous thoroughbred sire Hanover has brought to light the fact that the horse was dismembered by relic hunters when he was put to death. The famous stallion broke a leg and it was first thought that he might be saved. When he was finally put to death admirers of the great horse secured his hoofs and one of his legs was taken by the veterinarian. Should his bones be mounted and placed in a museum it wiil be necessary to supply the missing parts from some other animal. 1 ; 2 ; 3 j : 4 ; : j i , ; 1 : ,
