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Twenty Years Ago Today Chief Turfu,,Ey.ents of Jarj. I. J 9 0,4 3 Racing at New Orleans, Ingleside and Ascot " Park. . " C. R. Ellison sent Exclamation, making his debut as a three-year-old, to the post a mighty fit celt, and he defeated Rainland, one of the leaders of the two-year-old division last year, in easy fashion. Rainland was the public choice, but the best he could do was finish fourth, Aggie Lewis taking second place and Wreath of Ivy running third. This race was the New Year Handicap, at one mile and seventy yards, run as the feature race at New Orleans. Ellison made it a double for ths afternoon when Bard of Avon won the next race on the program, a selling affair at one and three-sixteenth miles for three-year-olds and upward. In the course of 1903 racing 623 two-year-olds wTon races over recognized tracks. Of this great number perhaps no more than twenty-five can be expected to rank well in the three-year-old winning division of 1904. In its annual table Daily Racing Form presents the condensed record of those two-year-olds which won three or more races and in addition some of those which won less, but by reason of the excellence of their performances held out promise of meritorious racing in the future. In respect to the greatest number of races won Peter Paul and Rainland are tied with fourteen wins each, Don Domo falling but one behind the pair. All three were fast performers, but of the trio, when at his best, Peter Paul was superior, but did not end his season in his best form, a sinister augury for 1904. However, "Pa" Bradley ka said that Peter Paul will win the American Derby of 1904, and stranger things have come to pass in racing. The table shows that the crack eastern and western two-year-olds Highball and English Lad have records closely approximating, each having won five races and been unplaced in five. Highball ran in four less races, wherefore his record is slightly superior to that of English Lad. For consistent running Auditor, Brancas, Nannie Hodge, Sourire, Miss CrawfW?T6 Dick Ber nard, Mag Nolin, The Mightyj Dick Turpin, Hamburg Belle, Lady Amelia, Rapid Water, Flammula, Magistrate, Broomstick, Leonidas, Montreason and Palmbearer are .conspicuous.
