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Twenty Years Ago Today Chief Turf Events of Jan 12 1903 Racing at New Orleans Newport and Oak ¬ land Word comes from Lexington Ky that Fred Cook of St Louis has refused a 10000 offer made by Bauer Gorman of Cincinnati for his threeyearold chestnut gelding Linguist by Linden Ella H Cooks price is said to bo 15000 but it is believed he will finally split the difference and sell for 12500 Lin ¬ guist won eight races last year and is re ¬ garded as a good American Derby prospect W II Bissett agent for J A Drakes sta ¬ ble forwarded a good batch of entries from Nashville for the Coney Island and Brooklyn meetings The pick of the stable was placed in the following stakes for the autumn meet ¬ ing The Flight September Autumn Flat bush Great Eastern Among the horses en ¬ tered were Savable High Chancellor Wyeth Runnels Von Roussc and the best of the two yearolds John Bullman the jockey who has experi ¬ enced so many penalties for disorderly con ¬ duct at the post embraced the opportunity of showing his independence when starter Richard Dwyer rtcenlly succeeded J J Holtman at Ingleside Bullman collected a purse among his fellow riders purchased a diamond pin and personally presented it to Dwyer Bull ¬ man frankly admits a dislike for Holtman and when the latter resumes work with the bar ¬ rier more trouble is looked for Dates for the years meetings on the Jockey Club raco courses and the officials to act at them were arranged last Friday at a meeting of the stewards held at the office of the chair ¬ man August Belmont 23 Nassau Street New York Those who attended were August Bel ¬ mont F R Hitchcock Andrew Miller and H K Knapp The Jockey Club officials were elected as follows August Belmont chairman J R Keene vicechairman F K Sturgis sec ¬ retary and treasurer The racing officials ap ¬ pointed were C J Fitz Gerald starter C McDowell presiding judge C H Pettingill associate judge II G Crickmore clerk of the scales W H Barretto timer J L Hall pad ¬ dock and patrol judge W S Vosburgh handi According to authentic figures the win ¬ nings of prominent turfmen in England and France during the year 1902 make American winnings look small in comparison In France M de SaintAlarys horses captured 160898 as against 118400 won by R S Siever in England and 93350 captured by Green B Morris in this country The leading French owner also won 7500 on the side because he bred a number of his winners In both his case and that of the Englishman their big winnings were due to two threeyearold fil ¬ lies Karil Kourgan and Sceptre Nine English owners won 50000 or more the late Colonel McCalmont following Mr Siever with 90575 Sir J Blundell Maple being third with 89560 W C Whitney stood sixteenth on the list with 27800 a drop from the 99000 won by him in 1901 Richard Croker won four races worth 8925 and the Keencs three races not worth more than 3000 Eight owners in France won 50000 or more W K Van derbilt being included in this list
