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i J j i , , i ; j j j j Twenty Years Ago Today Chief Turf Events cf D-:c. 28, 1902 Sunday, no racing. Albert Simons sold Moor to S. C. Hildreth. Terms private. Jockey Odom is expected at Ncv Orleans today from his home in Georgia. He will ride for W. Karrick. The noted race mare Lizzie McCarthy, by Patron Lillie Hempstead, has changed hands. She was sold by Haley Bros, for a fair price to George Holloway of Nicholasville, Ky. She is in foal to Jean Bereaud. The firm of Hatfield and Ownbey has been dissolved. Tom Ownbey purchased the interests held by Hatfield in the horses Lady Alberta, Chickadee, Moabina, Carl Kahler and Auria B. The price paid was ,000. Mr. Herz says there is no truth in the rumor that he will ship his horses to Memphis, but will shortly send Lucicn Appleby, Prince Blazes and Rolling Boer to the Scroggan Farm, near Louisville, to be fired and turned out. John E. Madden has just concluded negotiations for the sale of twenty brood mares. Thomas Hitchcock is the purchaser and the band of matrons will be shipped to his stud at Aiken, S. C, about the end of the week. Jockey Donegan, who is riding at New Orleans, is the little Brooklyn boy who was nearly killed by a fall from a horse at St. Louis last spring. He hovered between life and death for six weeks, but resumed riding in the fall. Richard Crokcr has secured second call on the services of jockey "Skeets" Martin for the racing season of 1903 in England. Martin is engaged by W. C. Whitney for first call and looks forward to a good season with the popular "light blue, brown cap" abroad. Word comes from Nashville that Savable, the Futurity winner, will be declared out of the Tennessee Derby that is to be decided at Memphis each spring. This race is more valuable than Kentuckys most important event, as there are no penalties or allowances in the Tennessee Derby, and next spring it will be worth about ,000 to the winner. To win this event would make Savable carry 127 pounds in the American Derby. Of course, his owner, Mr. Drake, being a Chicago man, would rather win the Chicago event than the Tennessee Derby. The great horse McChesney will probably be seen in the East next year. H. M. Tichenor, the wealthy Chicago horse fancier and owner, has offered Durnell and Herz 50,000 for the horse. It is the intention of Mr. Tichenor to enter McChesney in the Metropolitan, Brooklyn and Suburban Handicaps. As Durnell, ruled off in France, is debarred from the Jockey Clubs tracks, McChesney cannot race there unless the property of another owner a fact which is tending to facilitate the consummation of the sale. Should the Chicago millionaire secure the great horse he will also be a ready party to a special match between Hermis and McChesney on one of the metro-ipolitan tracks.
