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Twenty Years Ago Today Chief Turf Events of October 9, 1903 Racing at Morris Park, Worth, St. Louis and Detroit. Proceeds ran another of his high-class mud races today at Worth, beating a band of older horses with consummate ease. The talent picked upon By Ways as the best and made her a 13 to 10 favorite, but just before going to the post Proceeds was heavily backed from II to 5 to 17 to 10. Proceeds won as his rider pleased by two lengths from By Ways, which beat C. B. Campbell half a length for second place. This race was at one mile and seventy yards. Today being Friday the card at Morris Park had no race of real importance and the features of the day was the disqualification of Jocund, which finished first in the fourth race, an allowance affair for two-year-olds over the Withers mile. Jocunds disqualification moved Ormondes Right into first place, Palette taking second and Champlain third. Only four started. There was considerable bumping and rough riding during the run down the stretch, Jocund being the offender, and the stewards promptly disqualified him. The last race of the day was an overnight handicap for three-year-olds and over, at one mile and a halL Only four started here, Caughnawaga being a stanch favorite, but jockey Odoms bad judgment in keeping him far back in the first mile caused his defeat by the lightly weighted Early Eve, which had the feather of 92 pounds in the saddle, the favorite carrying 126. Caughnawaga when called on in the last half mile closed a big gap, but failed by three parts of a length of overhauling the winner. Warranted was third. J. 0. Keene, the American trainer in Russia, cabled today that he had secured the world-famous English stallion Galtee More, winner of the Triple Crown, 2,000 Guineas, Derby and St. Leger, for importation to America and will start heme with that noted horse inside of the next ten days. Galtee More is owned by the Russian government, which paid his English owners 25,000 for him at the end of his racing career. Keene has secured permission to bring the horse to this country for a term of years, and he will do stud duty at Keeneland Farm, owned jointly by the trainer and his brother "Ham" Keene. Galtse Mores sensational son, Irish Lad, the largest winning horse in the history of racing in Russia, will take his sires place in the government stud of Russia while Galtee More is in this country. In his cablegram Keene stated he was on the eve of leaving St. Petersburg to go 1,000 miles into the interior of Russia, where the government stud is located, to bring the horse to that metropolis, and as soon as he is rested up from that journey he would start for America with the celebrated stallion.
