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Twenty Years Ago Today Chief Turf Events of February 15 1903 Sunday no racing racingBlue Blue Ribbon the threeyearcld brother of Blue Girl and Blues arrived at the Senorita jFarm of Captain S S Brown at Lexington Ky from Sheepshead Bay and will bs turned out for a short time Later he will be sent East with a number of other horses from this farm to be trained by Peter Wimmer A future book on the American Derby Montgomery Handicap Brooklyn Handicap and Suburban Handicap was opened in Chicago by James OLeary For the American Derby Sav abb is installed favorite at the short odds of 10 to 1 with Dick Welles second choice at 15 to 1 hardly logical quotations when the thejHyde jHyde Park Stakes running is considered Dr Rexford has returned to New Orleans from attendance upon some of Barney Schrei bers horses that have been under the weather at Little Rock including the crack three yearold filly Geheimniss Schreibers horses are all on the mending list and Dr Rexford says that Geheimniss will not be seriously re ¬ tarded in the spring training There are about 150 horses at Little Rock and all of them are now in good health and condition The board of stewards of the Crescent City j jJockey Jockey Club promulgated the following order I In future refuse all entries from E J Arnold Co and all other cooperative racing firms pending positive proof that the horses of said stable are the individual property of the par ¬ ties officially registered as owners J R i Miller and E Winters were notified by secre ¬ tary Clark to furnish affidavits as to owner ¬ ship to horses running in their name nameWillie Willie Waldo the Kansas City midget who has been riding with great success at San Francisco has been engaged to ride for G B Morris for the next two years at a salary of 0000 per annum and the privilege of accepting outside mounts Morris has a sta ¬ ble of performers such as Cunard Sombrero Homestead Old England Durazzo and the crack twoyearold Boxwood With such ma ¬ terial young Waldo should show up promi ¬ nently with the best riders of the eastern division Last year he rode at San Francisco and St Louis
