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,c 6 v J a 1 s C c C j J i 1 1 j j 1 j . : ! j j j j ; Twenty Years Ago Today Chief Turf Events of Dec. 30, 1902 Racing at New Orleans, Newport and Ingle-side. Abe Frank will be ready to race in the spring. He was a big disappointment last year, but he has wintered well and will be new horse when he is sent to the post in 1903. A. J. Joyner, the trainer of Mr. Sydney Pagets extensive string, has a peculiar proposition in his stable and one that time alone can solve. This is nothing more nor less than the three-year-old colt Water Boy, by Watercress Zcalandia, which sustained a fracture of the thigh early last year, but which to all appearances is as good now as he ever was. Jockey Winnie OConnor has just closed a deal through August Belmont by which M. Dcbloch of Paris is to have second call on his services. Baron M. de Rothschild has contracted to pay OConnor 25,000 a year for first call on his services. M. Debloch is to give him 0,000 a year for second call. The contract begins on Maroh 1, 1903, and runs to March 1, 1903. OConnor is to ride at 110 pounds. George C. Bennett will have a big stable ,ready for the spring meeting at Memphis. His horses are wintering at the Bennett farm near there and his two-year-olds are as fine a bunch of youngsters as a man ever laid eyes on. Mr. Bennett is much pleased with the two-year-olds he has bred on his farm. He declares that they are bigger and better than those he purchased in the Blue Grass region, a section of country that supplies the turf with its best material. A consignment of six thoroughbreds for J. R. and F. P. Keene have arrived on the steamship Minnehaha. Included are the well-known horses Noonday H. and Olympian. Both arc performers of great distinction in America as well as in England and both are by the great Domino. In his two-year-old year Olympian ran second to Ballyhoo Bey for the Futurity of 1900, beating his stable mate, Tommy Atkins. Noonday II. won the Belles Stakes in the same year. J. V. Shipp, Sunny Slope Stud, and J. S. Hawkins of Midway Lexington, Ky., have formed a partnership and will have a string of sixteen horses in training poxt year, which will be handled bv I:uvlv;ns. They consist of five coming three-year olds ard eleven two-year-olds and will "e s-hippc 1 to .Memphis about Januarv 15. Hawkins selected Montgomery Park as his win?r training rjunus. In this new racing stable are several prospective crack two-year-olds, which were highly tried as yearlings. John E. Madden shipped from Lexington, Ky., to Whitney and Duryea at Aiken, S. C, the good two-year-olds Irish Lad and Alonzo. These youngsters cost Whitney and Duryea 2,500, the former bringing 5,000. Irish Lad was bred by Madden. Madden will retain and train their two-year-old Whorler, a; son of Inverness Whyota, a sister to Qrna- ment. He is eligible to the Realization and other great events. He ran second this year to Whitechapel in the Double Event. Madden has in training also W. C. Whtineys three-year-old last years Epsom Derby candidate Intruder, which he hopes to develop into a star next year. Both Whorler and Intruder will be sent to Louisville later on.
