view raw text
Twenty Years Ago Today Chief Turf Events of January 14 1903 Racing at New Orleans Newport and Oak ¬ land W C Whitney has decided to make no further effort to have his Epsom Derby win ¬ ner Volodyvoski retrieve the laurels lost dur ¬ ing 1902 when he lost every one of the eleven races in which he started and the horse has been sent to the stud farm of his breeder Lady Meux from whom Mr Whitney leased the horse who has announced that the race course will know him no more From a busi ¬ ness standpoint it is considered by experts most unfortunate that a racer of Volodyvoskis admitted high class as a threeyearold should have gone through his fouryearold career without having earned at least one bracket but such was his destiny Of the horses five years and over that ran in this country last year Advance Guard was probably best but the imported horse Scin tillant H was a fast racer when in his best form and may have been able to take the measure of the son of Great Tom Herbert was a good race horse and The Lady Federal John Bright Rose Tree Coburg Zoroaster and Douro were also meritorious racers of good class A number of the veteran division displayed good form as sprinters notably Gol ¬ den Rule Savoy Scorpio Frank Bell St Cuthbert Hilee and Hagcrdon Those that raced well judging by their seldom running unplaced were Scotch Plaid Obstinate Simon The Lady Federal Advance Guard Vin ccnnes Prince Blazes St Florian Rose Tree Golden Rule Zoroaster Ailyar Springwclb La Goleta Radford Roxane John Bright Vcsuvian and Kalos the latter being the only one that was placed in all his races The most industrious of the veterans was Star Cotton with the poor return of four wins out of eighty starts A race track war is on Giles Boland of St Louis fired the first gun this afternoon when he introduced two bills in the house one to provide for the repeal of the section of the breeders law permitting bookmakers at the tracks and the other making it a mis ¬ demeanor punishable by a fine of not more than 500 or imprisonment of more than six months for conducting a poolroom or keep ¬ ing books in any part of the State of Mis ¬ souri That the fight for the repeal of the breeders law will be one of the biggest fea ¬ tures of the session is conceded by the mem ¬ bers of the general assembly P J Cannody who was refused dates by the Western Jockey Club a few weeks ago was here last week Phelps and his friends are with Cannody or rather Carmody is with Phelps for the fight has enlisted the lobby leader The Butler mem ¬ bers from St Louis are with Phelps On the other side are the Hawes forces from St Louis It is thought that the senate committee of jurisprudence will be the chief bone of con ¬ tention Kinealy of St Louis is chairman of this committee He is considered an Adlcr TillesCclla man by the other side The olhre members of the committee arc Dowell Bradley of Johnson Heather and Martin all of whom are supposed to be im ¬ partial in their views on the question though it is thought that Heathers friendship for Hawes may make him aganist the repeal of tb3 breeders law Morton another commit tecman is thought to be with the Adler side Jewett the only other member of the com ¬ mittee has usually acted with Phelps Casey of Kansas City expects to introducs a bill in the house which will supplant the Boland bill It will provide for the shortening of the rac ¬ ing meetings to twenty or twentyfive days and stipulate that there shall be every day a big stake race for Missouribred horses All the Kansas City members are thought to be with the PhelpsCarmody element in the fight
