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i ] ! . ] j l - . J j t » 1 1 l r c f : I s £ r r s a C f I • I f , 1 ■ , f . s „ t I r * g s Twenty Years Ago Today Chrrf Turf Events of April 13, 1903. Racing at Washington, Memphis and Oakland. G. C. Bennett and Co. scored a double at Memphis, winning the first and second racrs with Alfio and Claremont. Jockey Coburn had the mount on both horses. J. F. Schorr, the Memphis turfman, has arrived at Ivouisville from the Pacific coast, bringing with him Gold Bell and Esherin, two of his thoroughbreds eligible to enter in the Kentucky Derby. He also brought Joe Frey and Slap Dash, a jumper. Mr. W. H. White also reached Louisville with Dagmar, another well known jumper. M. H. Denslow, who managed the defunct Kenilworth race track at Buffalo last year, is now in Buffalo and it is rumored that he is there in the interest of Chicago capitalists who are prepared to bid high for the track when it is put up for sale. Mr. Denslow, when he was asked who he represented, said: "Wait until the sale is held." J. E. Lanes Arius had an easy time in winning Bennings daily steeplechase. Every one of the other five starters either fell or bolted out of the course. Walter Geary was winning in a romp when he bolted at the last jump. Goldray fell when two jumps from home, but was remounted and finished the course. It rained all day and the steeplechase course resembled a swamp in some spots, making it difficult for the jumpers to keep their feet. The Benning management inaugurated a series of hurdle races, the first of which was run today. The conditions called for one and half miles over six hurdles for four year-olds and over. It was won by Gibson Light, from the stable of J. C. Wallace, with Alma Girl second and Collegian third. The race proved a thriller, with all four starters coming down the stretch in a bunch. Gibson Lights rider, Mara, was mainly responsible for his victory, outriding Finnegan on Alma Girl. Finnegan put up a weak finish and Alma Girl, with a stronger rider, would have won. The same cause was also responsible for Collegian being third, the rider of the fourth horse, Wilson, rode timidly and his mount was beaten by. a head for third money in the last fifty yards. The decision of the Tennessee Oaks had the big crowd at Memphis on its feet from the start of the race to its finish. Six high class three year-olds started, but the race developed into a duel between Olefiant. owned by J. G. Greener and Co., ridden by Winkfield, and Sarah Maxim, with jockey Bullman in the saddle. Olefiant won, but only after Sarah Maxim had contested every inch of the one mile journey with her. Sarah Maxim raced in third place for the first quarter of a mile, where Bullman sent her to the front and she held the lead from there until in the last ten yards. Olefiant, which had moved up at the the time Sarah Maxim took the lead, challenged her and the two raced like a team for the last three quarters of a mile. The latter tired right at the end and Olefiant got up in time to win by a nose. Jockey Winkfield clearly outrode Bullman in the last eighth. The crowd had to wait for the judges decision before they were sure which filly had won. Avoid ran a good race considering that she did not like the track, which was muddy, and she was easily best of the others.
