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Twenty Years Ago Today Chief Turf Events of Jan 3 1903 I Racing at New Orleans Newport and Ingle sicle sicleJockey Jockey Redfern rode three winners at New Orleans Jockeys Goodyear and Bishop each had a pair of winners at the Newport meeting Only five races were carded and the odd one felLto jockey Fitzmaurice FitzmauriceNeither Neither Nasturtium nor EnJurance by Right got to the post Catarrhal fever put them both out of business before the post trumpet for the first race of the Morris Park meeting sounded on May 30 King Hanover a son of Hanover Lady Agnes in which Mr Whitney never had confidence was the only colt to win a stake for him Major Pamserfield is the leader among the horses of 1902 His splendid total of 57685 was gallantly won and he was probably the best threeyearold of the year although that is a matter the admirers of Hermis and Mc Chesney consider open to debate A twoyear old the Futurity winner Savable comes second with 46100 to his credit creditThe The famous mare Catherine of Navarre dam of Terra Firma and sister to Henry of Navarre owned by Captain S S Brown of Christianburg Ky was booked to the young sire Hawkswick owned by H T Oxnard This is the first marc booked to the good son of St Simon and Captain Brown visited Willamette Stud the place of Colonel John B Ewing to inspect him before mating Another American trainer has besn engaged to go to Austria This time it is Frank Van Ness The nobleman who has secured his serv ¬ ices is Baron Blaskovits The barons string of racers is well known in France Austria and Hungary His stud farm is near Budapest Jockey Yancy who formerly rode for J Fol lansbce will go abroad with Van Ness and ride the barons horses Scully was the rider who piloted the win ¬ ner of the feature race at New Orleans He had a strenuous time getting home first be ¬ cause Scotch Plaid and Little Scout raczd each other into defeat in the first mile Marcos which won and Major Tenny which ran second were in seventh and eighth place right up to the head of the stretch and it was a simple matter for Marcos and Major Tenny to pass them Tha last named horses then hooked up in a stretch duel with Marcos just getting the verdict by a head Of the great eastern twoyearolds of 1901 not one raced to his first season form in 1902 and in the west McChesney alone made good Yankee Blue Girl Goldsmith Nasturtium Endurance by Right Heno Dixieline Whisky King Chilton Compute and Abe Frank for stake and famewinning purposes were failures William C Whitney president of the Saratoga Association who seemedto bold the threeyear old situation in the hollow of his hand on January 1 1902 finished the year with one secondrate stake for colt and two or three small filly stakes to his credit By dint of industriously campaigning from San Francisco to New York and back again the veteran trainer and owner Gresn B Morris enjoys the satisfaction and fame of heading the whining owners of 1902 His margin over the Chicago owner John A Drake is not a great one but is sufficient The 92120 of the Drake stable was nearly all won by two horses Savable and Wyeth F C McLcwee Co vho rank third won their 84730 with their two raagmnceiit racers Gold Heels and Major Daingerfield August Belmonfs fine total of 774 6 was wen by horses of his own breeding
