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Twenty Years Ago Today Chief Turf Events of Nov. II, 1903 Racing at Jamaica and Latonia. Perry Belmont has ordered all of his horses, including yearlings, to be sold at Jamaica on Thursday. The Phoenix Handicap cf ,000 added, for two-year-olds, at Jamaica, was won by E. R. Thomas Lady Amelia. The filly handled her high impost of 126 pounds well and ran the five and a half furlongs in 1 :06, beating R. T. Wilsons Dolly Spanker by three lengths. Lady Amelia tired somewhat at the end, but hung on gamely. It is said that Waterboy has recovered from his recent lameness and will be trained again next year. At first trainer Joyner believed that the Watercress horse would never be able to race again, but lately he has succeeded in bringing Waterboy around all right, and he bslieves that after a good rest this winter he will be as formidable as ever in the spring. Tuesday the following ruling was made public by the stewards of the Jockey Club: "At a meeting of the stewards of the Jockey Club, held in the apartment of Mr. James R. Keene at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on Monday Nov. 9, 1903, Mr. L. V. Bell was fined 00 for breach of discipline in the clubhouse of the Queens County Jockey Club at Aqueduct on November 2, 1903, in his treatment of the official handicappcr of the Jockey Club." John E. Madden has ordered manager Hiram Steele to make public the list of mares he will sell at Lexington in the Fasig-Tipton sale. There are thirty-eight in the collection, and in the lot are six mares bred to Perry Belmonts Ethelbert last spring. The othars are in foal to Maddens three great stallions, the dead Mirthful, Sandringham, the brother to two Epsom Derby winners, and Plaudit, the Kentucky Derby winner of 1898.
