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Twenty Years Ago Today Chief Turf Events of October 5, 1903 Racing at Morris Purk, St. Louis, Detroit and Worth. Olympian, which won the closing race of the day at Worth, scored his maiden victory on the American turf. This horse, although .considered by his former owner, J, R, Keene, one pf the best bred at tho Castleton Stud, has performed poorly since his two-year-old year and was a disappointment in England as well as America. He was shipped to England just before coining a three-year-old with u view to annexing the Epsom Derby, but after flattering his backers by leading to Tuttenham Corner he fell back thereafter and finished among those unplaced. There will be three important sales of ract horses and yearlings, the property of Messrs. August Belmont, William C. Whitney, Jamas B. Haggin and Sidney Paget, at the Morris Park race course on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week. There is a remarkable collection to go under the hammer and somo great bargains will undoubtedly be picked up. The Belmont yearlings are those reserved by Mr. Belmont for his own racing next year, but which his determination to retire from the turf temporarily has caused him to consign for sale to the highest bidder. Some of the crack racers that will be put up for sale are: Master-man, Marjoram, Beldame, Namtor, Orthodox, Fine Arts. Stalwart, Judith Campbell, Valour, Payne. Chas. Ellwood, Sir Voorhees, Silver Days, Grenade, Ostirch and Juvenal Maxim. Some of these are likely to find new homes in the West. Morris Parks racing today was of the high-est order and four of the six races were decidedly close, being of the head-and-nose variety. In tho second race Irene Lindsey and Black Fox had a strenuous duel, the former getting the verdict by a nose, In the third race, for two-year-old maiden fillies, Euphrat just dropped her head in front of Tepee at the wire, these two being four lengths before Missing Link, In the fourth race the winners margin wiu a little larger, Runnels beating Oarsutau by three-quarters of a length, Sweet Alice being a poor tldrd, seven lengths back.
