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Twenty Years Ago Today Chief Turf Events of Oct. 16, 1903 Racing at Brighton Beach, Worth and St. Louis. J. B. Respess will ship his horses, including Dick Welles, to Latonia today. Six Shooter will be left there to run in the Columbia Handicap next Saturday. Major Tenny and By Ways, both owned by S. C. Hildreth, ran one-two in the third race at Worth, a handicap of one mile and a sixteenth. Alfredo was third, a head back of By Ways. Our Bessie, His Eminence, Luralight and Huzzah also started. Trogon, which ran second in the opening race at Worth Wednesday, cost J. R. Keene as a yearling ,400. He is a half:brother to the good performer Tommy Atkins, both being out of Quesal, a one-time splendid race mare and the former property of starter Dwyer. R. W. Waldens River Pirate, which he purchased at the recent Whitney sale, won under his new colors at the first asking. In the fourth race at Brighton Beach today to defeated a good band, accomplishing the task easily. He went to the front at the rise of the barrier and was never headed, Injunction being second, one and one-half lengths back, the latter being the same distance before Stolen Mo- ments for second place. The conditions were one and one-eighth miles, allowances, for three-year-olds and oyer. This was the feature race of .the program,
