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Twenty Years Ago Today Chief Turf Events of Nov. 7. 1903 Racing at Aqueduct and Latonia. Andrew Millers Wild Thyme is in grand form at the present time. In the fourth race today at Aqueduct she beat the favorite, Ahumada, home by a head. This race was the Roslyn Handicap, at one and one-sixteenth miles. Florham Queen took third place. The leading jockey in Australia is a boy named Bonta, who learned how to ride from John Huggins, W. C. Whitneys trainer in England. He has headed the list for two years and can do ninety-five pounds. Taral, who stands second, will sail for-America Irom Hamburg on November 5 on the steamer August Victoria. Fred Burlew and H. L. Hayman have matched their two-year-old colts Hello and Orthodox to race a mile, each to carry 115 pounds, for ,500 a side, and th2 Metropolitan Jockey Club is expected to arrange a race for next week to enable the two horses to settle the question of supremacy. The owners want the association to add ,000. Recently trainer Frank Taylor has been giving McChesney only the easiest kind of work. He is brought out on the Gravesend course daily and is given a long gallop, but it is some time since he was asked any speed question in his work. He is perfectly sound, and the slight injury shortly after he was brought East has in no manner bothered him since he was pronounced cured.
