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t £ c * , . I . . s e , . p e ;" t of if e it Twenty Years Ago Today Chief Turf Events of April 8, 1903. Racing at Washington, Memphis and Oakland. So far few good two year olds have been shown at Benning. Race King, Petunia and Adel Trebla and a few others have shown fairly good class, but not what will be expected from the colts and fillies that will be introduced to the public next month on the metropolitan tracks. The Benning meeting has been running fif teen days. On every day with the exception of four, W. C. Dalys horses have won at least one purse or more. His total number of races won up to date is thirteen. Locket added the thirteenth purse to the Daly exchequer when he trimmed eight other selling platers in the fifth race today. The next important western handicap to come up for decision will be the Kinloch inaugural, which will be run at Kinloch Park on the opening day next Wednesday. The distance is one mile and Manager Joseph A. Murphy has assigned McChesney topweight at ; 124 pounds. All the others are asked to carry less than 115 pounds. J. F. Newman is a recent arrival at Lake . side. He has wintered his horses in Texas. Burnie Bunton, the star in his stable, and Our . Bessie appear a trifle high in flesh, but the six : two-year-olds, all the get of Rancocas, which • make up the rest of the string are a splendid I looking band of youngsters and should give a , good account of themselves in the near future. . The remarkable success of the three year- old filly Mrs. Frank Foster at Benning is the i talk of the town. Since the first day of the ; meeting she has won six races. Three of them x on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of last t week. In twenty-four races at New Orleans s during the last winter season she finished in the money twenty-one times. Mrs. Frank c Foster was sold as a yearling for 5 and did not begin to race until last fall. She is owned by Frank Foster and is named for his wife. The filly is blind in one eye. She will be turned out after the Benning meeting and will be raced later on at some of the Canadian meetings.
