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Twenty Years Ago Today Chief Turf Events of April 12, 1903 Sunday. No racing. Turney Bros, are now at Kinloch. St. Ixmis, with their string, and have rented a cottage near the track. There are about 150 horses at the track, many stables having shjpped horses needing a rest after the New Orleans meeting. The track is in good condition and, being twelve miles from St. Louis, trainers find it better than one within a few minutes ride of the city. Kirby Orr is there with a string from New Orleans and a small band of Texas-bred two-year olds. Burrows and Covington are on the way East with twenty horses from California. From Little Rock all the Schreiber horses that are not fit to race will be sent to the farm for a rest. Stable room at Churchill Downs has become almost a nightmare with secretary manager Charles F. Price. Though the meeting at the Downs is one month distant, every stall at the famous course is engaged and stable room about the course is now at a premium and almost impossible to secure. Mr. Price has | been compelled to refuse stable room to. two horsemen. C. Hellebush wired from Memphis requesting stable room for ten horses and C. Elmer Railey of Lexington, wrote for eight stalls for as many thoroughbreds, but Mr. Price was compelled to refuse both applications for the simple reason that h" did not have any place to put the horses. Had these men applied earlier for stalls they would have been accommodated, but the demand of late has b?en so great that there was nothing else to do but refuse the request. As an outcome of the Tenessee Derby, a three cornered match race has been arranged for next Tuesday at Memphis. S. C. Hildreth, owner and trainer of Witfull, and G. W. Poole, trainer of Flocarline, both felt somewhat aggrieved that their fillies were not in the Derby. They told Mike Daly they believed if they had been eligible to start Claude would have finished third. There is also some reported rivalry between Hildreth and Poole as to the relative merits of the fillies. Daly said that if the association was willing to hang up a purse he would race Claude against the two fillies at weight forage at a mile and an eighth. The association agreed to give ,000, all to go to the winner, and the horsemen among themselves agreed on seven pounds below the scale, which will make Claudes weight 115 pounds, Witfulls 110 and Flocarlines 110 pounds. Bullman will ride Claude, Coburn Witfull and Wonderly Flocarline. Alexander Shields was an arrival at Graves-end from Bound Brook, N. J., with fifteen horses. Old Advance Guard, looking better than ever, was the hero of the hour. He was stripped so many times for his admirers that eventually young Will Shields was obliged to put the padlock on the iron horses stall. A newspaper man asked owner Shields how many races the horse had run since he became his property. He said that he did not know, but that he could tell exactly how many times he had been in the money. "Since I owned him, said Shields, "he has won forty two races. He was second in thirty-two and was third in eighteen, making a total of ninety-two races. Of course, sometimes he was unplaced, which makes a racing record possibly never before achieved by a horse carrying such high weight as Advance Guard has carried. He is today without a blemish and with legs as clean a3 the day he was foaled.
