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I i I ] i , I " • - . Twenty Years Ago Today Chief Turf Events of May 16, 1903 Racing at Morris Park, Louisville, St. Louis and Worth. Two track records were broken at Worth today. Gin Spray, which won the second race, at one and one half miles, lowered the mark from 2:35% to 2:35/5, and Dick Bernard won the fifth race, at four and a half furlongs, from Peter Paul and Arnold K., lowering the record from 54% to 54%. Next Saturday the Chicago Jockey Club will open its spring meeting and signalize the occasion with the first running of the new 0,000 Hawthorne Handicap. This big race and the Harlem National gives the Chicago racing field two great races that will in time vie with the Brooklyn and Suburban Handicaps in importance and public esteem and will serve to place local racing on a higher plane. The horses of John A. Drake, thirty in number, in charge of E. Wishard, arrived at Hawthorne from Nashville, Tenn., where they have been wintered. The horses all appear to be in good health, but do not seem to be in the best racing condition. Some of the horses, among them Savable, the American Derby candidate, are high in flesh and they will no doubt have to undergo a strenuous preparation before they will be at their best. Morris Parks Saturday afternoon program had the Fashion Stakes and the International Steeplechase Handicap as its features and both provided interesting sport for the large crowd that witnessed the program. The International Steeplechase Handicap was won by Walter Cleary, owned by J. W. Colt, from fourteen other jumpers that attempted to negotiate the difficult course. The ninth jump saw four of them eliminated, all falling as a result of Imperialist refusing to take the jump. The latter was ridden by a recruit rider, A. Jackson, and his handling of the horse was the subject of much comment from the spectators, all agreeing that the rider had no business riding steeplechasers. Walter Cleary indulged Eophons with the lead until the twelfth jump, where the latter fell and Walter Cleary at once took command and, fencing well, was eased up to win by four lengths from Nepcnset, which was twelve lengths in front of Hark Forward. The latter just managed to outstay Carrier Pigeon by three-quarters of a length for third place. Four horses started for the Fashion Stakes, at four and a half furlongs, for two year-olds. The Lotos Stable furnished the winner in their brown fil!y Ishlana, by St. Gatien Darine, which beat James R. Keenes first-time starter Mapoota by two lengths. The latter ran greenly and never got down to business until near the finish, where he came like a streak, but it was too late and Ishlana had too big a margin to overcome in the short distance left. Mapoota is evidently a coming crackerjack and when more experienced will give a good ac- count of himself among the best of the youngsters. Fickle was third, eight lengths in front of Silvermeade. ♦
