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Twenty Years Ago Today Chief Turf Events of March 15 1903 Sunday no racing racingFuller Fuller is riding in rare form at the Cres ¬ cent City rarely a day passing that he does Inot win with two or more mounts mountsJames James OLeary in his quotations for the American Derby in his winter book holds Savable as the favorite at 15 to 1 He quotes Collanade Dick Welles High Chancellor and Von Rousse at 25 to 1 Lord of the Vale Bernays Early Irish Lad and Topsoil have 30 to 1 posted against them themLast Last year during the controversy on in ¬ breeding Colonel J E Pepper of Meadowthorpe Stud as an experiment bred the mare Cherub by Brambls Baby by Strachino to her half brother Meadowthorpe The result is a brown colt regarded as one of the finest sucklings ever dropped in Kentucky The dam and sire of this youngster are half sister and half brother respectively to Ballyhoo Bey which won the Futurity in 1900 for W C Whitney Seventeen candidates for the Kentucky Derby are now quartered at Churchill Downs Louis ¬ ville Ky Last year only nineteen colts quali jfied for the Derby by making the final pay jment Then the field to face the starter was made up of four horses AlIanaDale In ¬ ventor Abe Frank and The Rival This year thirtysix have qualified for the Derby and the chances are that at least ten or twelve will face the barrier when starter J J Holtman grabs his red flag Two of the best horses of the West will arrive at Montgomery Park from California j within the next few days having been shipped jlast Saturday They are Hortone the winner of the Burns Handicap with its S10000 added money and Claude the winner of the Cali ¬ fornia Derby with its value of several thou ¬ sand dollars With the two will come several carloads of other racers Horton is an aged horse the property of Bianchi McGovern and has never been raced this side of the Rockies since being purchased by this firm He has been regarded as a firstclass selling plater for several years having won many races under all kinds of conditions
