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Twenty Years Ago Today Chief Turf Events of Oct 19, 1903 Racing at Brighton Beach, Worth and St Louis. Clarence F. Mackay is reported as about to re-enter the racing game. C. F. Hill, it is said, will train for him, and a strong stable will be gather together before next season. The Worth race track was in the best condition it has been in this year and some very fast time was made in some of the races, notably the third, in which Golden Rule ran three-quarters in 1:12 flat, thus cutting off one-fifth of a second from the previous track mark and coming within" close proximity to the American record for a circular track of 1 John A. Drakes Ocean Tide was the -winner of the Peconic Stakes at Brighton Beach over Wotan by the narrow margin of a head. The bay filly by St. George followed the pacemaker in second place to the stretch, where she assumed command and, standing Wotans strong challenge in; the last sixteenth, outstayed him by a head. Flammula was only three-quarters of a length back of "the pair and going fastest of alL The conditions were two-year-olds, at five and a half furlongs, with ,500 aided. -
