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Twenty Years Ago Today Chief Turf Events of Nov. 9, 1903 Racing at Jamaica and Latonia. Dan McKenna, three-year-old son of Pirate of Penzance and Lady Modred, owned by J. C. Milam, staged a duel lasting the length of the stretch with Thane today at Latonia and triumphed over the latter by a head in as exciting a finish as has ever been witnessed at the Covington track. At the three-quarters post of the mile and a sixteenth journey the three-year-clds margin was one and a half lengths, but at the head of the stretch the older horse had cut this down to a neck and from there to the finish they fought it out hammer and tongs, but Dan McKenna is game and he stuck it out to win by a head. The others never figured seriously, the betting indicating that it was strictly a two-horse race. L. V. Bells River Pirate was an easy winner of the all aged handicap which featured the second day of racing at Jamaica. At the finish he was five lengths before Tribes Hill and with jockey Gannon having a strong pull on his head. He gave away much weight to the rest and was much the best. The distance was one and one-eighth miles. The winner was under restraint for the first three-quarters and when jockey Gannon sent him after the pacemaker, Demurrer, he easily caught and passed the latter to win eased up. Demurrer tired fast in the final eighth, being beaten out for any portion of the purse by Tribes Hill and Brigan, which finished in the order named. The secondary feature of the program, the Gresnpoint Selling Stakes, fell to" that consistent sprinter Sweet Alice, which defeated Irene Lindsey by a head in a driving finish. This was the second time within a week that thesa two met and the result of the first meeting was identical with that of today, Sweet Alice winnning by a head from Irene Lindsey, with only a pound difference in the weights, the former carrying 95 pounds and the latter 105.
