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o Twenty Years Ago Today Chief Turf Events of Jan. 14, 1904 Racing at New Orleans, Los Angeles and Oakland. W. S. Barnes has purchased from Dan Devereaux the two-year-cld bay colt by Ros-sington-Sccrct, by Longfellow. The youngster is a brother to Cloister and Trade Last and is the first thoroughbred Barnes has purchased since the dispersal sale of his Melbourne establishment. Warte NichC continues on his winning way, accounting for the best race on the card at Ascot Park today, defeating Princess Tulane, Orsina and Dolly Hayman in a seven-eighths dash, allowances, for four-year-clds. His victory was expected, the books quoting him at 8 to 5 in the betting. Orsinas opening price was also S to 5, but he receded to 2. to 1 at post time. He was used up too much in the early running chasing Dolly Hayman, which set the pace to the three-quarters post and when called on had nothing in reserve to withstand the winners challenge and lost second placs to Princess Tulane, the latter coming fast in the stretch and outgaming him in the final drive. Work on the track and buildings of the Kansas City Jockey Club is rapidly approaching completion. The bed of the track is almost finished. The ground which was selected as a site for the erection of the racing plant lj uneven, but picturesque. Consequently, much grading has been necessary, but th3 process of leveling has enhanced rather than marred many beauties of nature. On tb.2 backstretch, beginning at the three-quarters pele and running nearly to the three-eighths pels, there is a fill twenty fc;t high, while slmost the entire front stretch was a quarry of reck, eight feet of which has been removed, thus reducing the last quarter to a depth of threo feet lower than the remainder of the track. This solid bed of rock which resulted from blasting has been covered with three feet of soil to the end that the track is now as nearly a level mils of ground as can be made by human hands, and with a litth use rhould, owing to the spongy condition of the Urn est one earth, become one of the fastest in the country.
