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Twenty Years Ago Today Chief Turf Events of Jan. 18, 1904 Racing at New Orleans, Los Angeles and Oakland. Mexican is probably the only handicap horse of distinction quartered at Morris Park. Reports from the East say that he is going much sounder than at any time since he became the property of Mr. Wilson, and there is a fair prospect of his owner realizing handsomely on his investment. The Picket will go East in the spring and Santon will probably be sent to St. Louis to try for the Worlds Fair Handicap. These crack performers are wintering at the farm of their owners, Middleton and Jungbluth, in Jefferson County, Ky. Their trainer, Carrol Reid, says they are in splendid condition. John Miller has just returned to Lexington, Ky., from Aiken, where he took W. C. Whitneys mare Gunfire to be placed in training. He says that Irish Lad is doing nicely in trainer Rogers hands and that of the forty horses in the Whitney string there not one has been sick. The coming year "will mark the advent on the turf of the first of the get of the sensational two-year-old of 1899, Mesmerist, the brilliant achievements of which horse in the Foam, Double Event, Saratoga Sweepstakes, Dash, Autumn and Junior Championship Stakes and Great Eastern Handicap made him as much a public idol as Hamburg was two seasons previ- j ous. As Mesmerist made his first regular sea- j son in 1902 the presumption has been that his I oldest get are coming yearlings and his first two-year-old starters would appear in 1905. It now seems that while Alberts great son was 1 still in training in 1901 W. S. Payne of- the Maplewood Stud secured the consent of his 1 owner, through trainer Julius Bauer, to breed a small band of mares to the famous horse and as a result five colts and one filly were foaled. ,
