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Twenty Years Ago Today Chief Turf Events of January 29 1903 Racing at New Orleans Newport and Oak ¬ land Trainer J C Milam is being besieged with offers for his sixyearbid bay mare North umbria by Ben Strome The Humber by Bread Knife Milam raced Northumbria suc ¬ cessfully She is a sister to Eugenia Burch Milam bred her to Goodrich last year and she is expected to foal soon He has refused 2000 for this mare on several occasions occasionsBurns Burns Waterhouss expect to send their shifty little Missouribred horse Corrigan East to run in the Suburban and hope Bullman will ride him He ran a good race for a three yearold in the Burns Handicap last winter and a youngster likely this year to emulate that example is M J Dalys Claude if he is not raced stale in the meantime He has won but two races this winter but should have taken two others and after being interfered with at the stretch turn was beaten but a short heal j jfor for third money in the New Years Handicap I Prominent breeders are scouring the country to locate the stallion Perblaise by St Blaise Perhaps by Australia This move is due to the fact that Roxane now owned by S San ford and sons Hurricana Stud Amsterdam I N Y is by him and a review of his get shows that of his eight starters so far to race he has seven winners John E Madden trained Perblaise and when done racing Milton Young his breeder bought him of James E Pepper into whose hands he had fallen While owned I by Pepper he sired the filly which has turned j out to be the good racer Roxane A few years j since Young sold Perblaise to some man in Kansas and there all trace of the now noted stallion ends as the rumor of the horse being located on a breeding farm in Illinois has proved upon investigation to be without foun ¬ dation If alive Perblaise is but fourteen years old and several seasons of usefulness lie before him in the stud He is a halfbrother to Reckon for which mare Capt S S Brown paid 17000 at the closing out sale last fall of the horses owned by A H D H Morris
