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Twenty Years Ago Today Chief Turf Events of Jan 7 1903 Racing at New Orleans Newport and Oak ¬ land A D Worley has sold Lord Touchwood to James Arthur for 1000 It was hard luck that induced Worlcy to part with the horse He has had a disastrous season at New Or ¬ leans leansE E K Wheeler sold Belvino the horse that got Landry into trouble to J B Givens of the firm of Dayton Co who have been booking in the West under the name of the Dexter Club ClubAfter After Creamers ride on Farmer Jim recently S C Hildreth told the boy that he wanted him to do all his lightweight riding for the remainder of the meeting at New Orleans It was one of the best rides I ever saw a light ¬ weight boy put up said Hildreth I believe the lad has the making of a jockey in him himThe The death of the noted race mare Sunny Slope was reported today She died New Years Day of pneumonia at McGrathiana Stud Sunny Slope was owned and raced by Jere Dunn She was the dam of Sun Shower which was her first foal Sunny Slopss greatest race was in the Brighton Cup in which she was only beaten a head by The Friar behind her being Ben Brush Dr J D Neet proprietor of Kindergarten Stud Lexington Ky and breeder of Plaudit Hastings Handsome and other noted per ¬ formers left for California today to spend several months During his stay on the coast he will pick up a number of promising young mare to add to his small but good collection of stud matrons He will secure them hi tune to be bred to fashionable Kentucky sires in the spring springFor For a long price Gorman Bauer have bought privately of George Mills manager of the Melbourne Stud the twoyearold brown filly Blue Pennant by Rainbow The Brown Countess half sister to Fancy Wood and Shan donfield by Wagner Blue Pennant will be shipped to Cumberland Park Nashville to which point Gorman Bauers stable now at Owensboro Ky will be sent on January 15 She is engaged in more than 100000 worth of stakes in 1903 and 1904 What is believed to be one of the most valuable yearlings in the country is at Race land Stud New York the property of Catesby Woodford It is a chestnut colt by Sir Dixon Bonnie Blue H hence a full brother to Blues Blue Girl and Blue Ribbon The young ¬ ster will be sold next June Bonnie Blue II is with foal to Sir Dixon again but next season her owner will mate the remarkable brood mare to the young imported stallion StarShoot by the famous Isinglass and if the produce is a colt he will be reserved for stud duty at Raceland and Runnymede his running qualities alone being sold as a year ¬ ling lingT T C McDowell for the first time in several years in fact since the days of spring racing over the old Kentucky Association track has decided to do his winter and early spring train ing on the home track at Ashland Farm Lx jington Ky this year where Kitty Clive the first stake winner McDowell ever raced was trained and David Garrick the late P Lorril lards crack sen of Hanover was trained in his yearling form It is not likely that h3 will go East before the close of the Wash ¬ ington Park meeting as he will not attempt to fit his Kentucky Derby winner AlanaDale for any of the big spring handicaps In the opinion of the veteran trainer Charles Marvin the son of Halm a will certainly race again but he advised his owner to wait for warm weather to set the great Derby colt down to his best paces
