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Twenty Years Ago Toay Chief Turf Events of Jan. 10, 1904 Sunday, no racing. The first foal of the 1904 season came last Tuesday night at the McGrathiana Stud of Milton Young. The brood mare Gretchen, by Luke Blackburn Pinafore, by Enquirer, foaled a bay filly by the English stallion Woolsthorpe. A rider unknown to track fame in 1902 enjoys the singular good fortune of having achieved the highest honors of his profession in his first season of extensive employment on the leading tracks of the country. It was not luck that enabled Grover Cleveland Fuller to achieve such distinction, but skill of the highest order. He not only scored the most winning mounts, but his percentage was greater than that of Odom, Burns, Redfern, Bullman, ONeill, Dominick and other skillful riders of more experience. Of the jockeys of long-established reputation Shaw alone excelled him in percentage. Another new rider, the lightweight boy L. Wilson, was second in respect to number of winning mounts. It is to be noted that whereas in 1902 Ranch and Helge-son each rode in more than a thousand races, H. Phillips alone passed over the thousand mark in 1903.
