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Twenty Years Ago Today Chief Turf Events of February 16 1903 Racing at New Orleans Newport and Ingle T C McDowell is coming to Chicago to race Mr McDowell it will be recollected had charge of the Vanderbilt horses last year He has taken up AllanaDale and will cam ¬ paign him together with others The twelve principal racers that will carry the colors of J B Lewman the Louisville turfman are all in fine fettle at Churchill Downs Mary Lavanna the pride of ths barn has grown several inches and filled out pro ¬ portionately This filly will be a prime factor in the running of the All Western Oaks if she retains her form of last spring G B Morris is saving Sombreio for the Brooklyn Handicap The colt will receive a special preparation for the big Gravesend racs Morris will also begin training Old England at Ingleside for the coming engagements The Goldfinch gelding has had a long and much needed rest this winter and is ready for a long and hard campaign A chestnut colt by FidelioLips a bay colt by FidelioElcalde and a chestnut colt by Fidelio Clara Fields arc the best of the Lew ¬ man twoyearolds They are in nearly all the principal races to be decided in the West this spring This stable will go up the line from Louisville racing at Latonia and then at Chi ¬ cago Mr Lewman expects to ship East after the Washington Park meeting The outlaw meeting at Newport came to an end today The announcement was made that after todays card was run the track will be closed for two weeks to be reopened February 28 under a new management J J Ryan came here today from St Louis and had a meeting with Frank Fowler Roy Offuit and Clem Creveling in the Gibson House Afte this meeting it was stated that Offuit on Feb ¬ ruary 28 would assume the management of the track that Fowler would after tomorrow become the manager of the Tuxedo poolroom and that Creveling would resume the position of presiding judge At Memphis Bub May has the biggest twoyearold in training a youngster called Pulses and a crackerjack it is said for which May refused 20000 It is as big as a three yearold and a big threeyearold into the bar ¬ gain The Tichenor Stable at Memphis is composed of a splendidlooking band of thoro ¬ ughbreds They are so far advanced toward a race that trainer Poole said that he feared he would have to let up on them There are arej j twenty odd horses in the string and they have gone through the winter finely The Derby candidate Sidney C Love does not eeem to have grown a bit He is still a litle bit of a ahorse horse but he is pretty much horse at that
