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Twenty Years Ago Today Chief Turf Events of Jan. 8, 1904 Racing at New Orleans, Los Angeles and Oakland. Mr. W. C. Whitney, occupies first -place in the list of winning owners for 1903 with .winnings . of 02,509. James B. Haggin was second with the fine sum of 189,795, to which Waterboy was the chief contributor. The Hampton Stable was third with 3,790, mostly won by the grand colt Africander. The popular ownsr Captain Samuel S. Brown shows up well in fourth place with 0,630. The chairman of the Jockey Club, Mr. August Belmont, held his own in good style in 1903 with 5,-508. Sidney Paget and E. R. Thomas are well up in the list with 8,185 and 5,460 respectively. Mr. Edward Corrigan won 2,-840, but so huge was his list of horses in training that it is doubtful if that sum much more than paid expanses. John E. Madden, F. Cook and S. C. Hildreth all had a measure of success that meant prosperity. Other owners who did well in 1903 through the successful performances of their horses were James R. Keene, Frank Farrell, Barney Schreiber, Fox-hall P. Keene, E. E. Smathers, W. B. Jennings and Co., W. M. Scheftel, M. J. Daly, J. B. Res-pess, J. W. Colt and the Clay Bros. The western turfmen J. W. Schorr and George C. Bennett each had a disappointing year whsn compared with their much greater returns in 1902. Very prolific of good horses, speedy, staying, up to high weights and comparing favorably with the best of preceding years was 1903. It fell to a very great three-year-old, Africander, to head its list of winning horse;, just as one of that age, but not so grand a racer, Major Daingerfield, did in 1902. Africander won 0,810, Major Daingerfield 7,6S5. A remarkably fast four-year-old, Waterboy, was second in 1903 with 0,775 to his credit, the Futurity winner Hamburg Belle being third with 7,125, and the champion two-year-old colt, Highball, fourth with 9,925. Last year the second, third and fourth in the winning list were the two-year-olds Savable, Irish Lad and Mizzen. Of this trio only Irish Lad upheld his two-year-old fame by landing 7,350 as a three-year-old, including the Brooklyn Handicap in his victories. Hie American Derby winner, The Picket, comes fifth in 1903 with 3,680 won, and the great four-year-old McChesney more than repaid the 0,000 E. E. Smathers paid for him by winning a total of 1,175. Claude, Shorthose, Aristocracy, Pulsus, . Magistrate, Delhi; Hermis, Hurstbourne, Beldame, Igniter and Race King were all winners of sums out of the ordinary and all ahead of the best horse of the year, Dick Welles, the latter not being extensively engaged.
