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Twenty Years Ago Today Chief Turf Events of February 26 1903 Racing at New Orleans and Ingleside InglesideWilliam William Jackson will breed about fifty mares to The Commoner this year About forty of the number are the Belle Meade matrons Trainer Enoch Wishard and jockey Charley Houbre enjoy themselves when not at work hunting jacksnipe in the infield at Cumberland Park They have been quite successful lately latelyJ J G Follansbee a popular membar of the Jockey Club will branch out this year it is said more extensively in his turf ventures and establish a breeding farm in Mexico where he already has a ranch He will raca here ¬ after under the nom de course of the Mexican Stable Mr Follansbees colors crimson black stripes crimson cap have been promi ¬ nent in past years on the metropolitan tracks but his stable hitherto has been small though select Hereafter it is said Mr Follansbee will increase his racing establishment every News comes from Memphis that J W Schorrs Crescent City Derby candidate Right ¬ ful is coming around fast and is showing good work in his trials This would seem to indicate that Rightful will be the Schorr representative in the Crescent City Derby which is to be run the closing day of the Crescent City Jockey Clubs meeting March 14 The Hildreth colt Topsoil is also being sent along in preparation for this Derby and Hildreth announces that if all goes well he will have two starters in the race He will also start Witfull It is said that J E Madden will send on his threeyearold Glass ¬ ful from Louisville to start startThe The reports from down the line are that Lucien Appleby has begun his career as a fouryearold in the finest condition and that if no mishaps befall him he will prove a formidable factor in all the events in which he is entered The same is said of Jiminez and Rose Tree Jiminez does not fancy heavy going but he is a race horse of speed and quality He was not raced much last year because of the condition of the tracks the greater part of the time The son of The Commoner won three races and his running qualities were sold toward the latter part of the season by F J Kelley to P Dunne He was beaten by the fast mare Rose Tree in a match race at Harlem a race that gave dis ¬ satisfaction to his admirers as is usual in match races The mare is fast and it is ex ¬ pected from the way she has wintered that she will bs as good as she ever has been when she is called upon this year and she is jwell engaged as is the policy of Mr Corrigan iThe same owner has another of the handicap brigade that is a race horse of the highest j class the English thoroughbred Scintillant II He won the Twentieth Century Handicap at Harlem Park making a new record for the distance He is a race horse of rare speed endurance and gameness But he has one bad j failing he is a vicious and sulking brute Scintillant II is to be bred for a time and is then to be taken up for the years campaign He may be depended on to cut a figure in every race unless he sulks
