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Twenty Years Ago Today Chief Turf Events of Feb. 2, 1904 Racing at New Orleans, Los Angeles and Oakland. The sudden and unexpected death today of the Hon. William C. Whitney removes a man as prominent and masterful in affairs of the turf as he was in affairs of finance and matters of national concern. A man of vast wealth and many enterprises, racing was his recreation from business cares and his removal will be far-reaching in affecting the sport in New York, especially touching the magnificent racing plant he had so sedulously fostered at Saratoga. His love of and active participation in racing lent tone and dignity to the sport and his death will be sincerely deplored by turfmen the country over. Two important additions have been made to the great American breeding interests in the consignment of Holstein and Baldur to Lexington. The horses have been shipped from New York and their Kentucky stud duties will be under the control of W. C. Scott. Baldur is an eight-year-old son of Sheen and Sunshine, by Galopin, and during his stay in the East he has greatly impressed horsemen who have seen him. He is a bay horse of 15.2 hands and weights about 1,100 pounds. Of tremendous bone and substance, many good judges say he is one of the best-class importations since the great Meddler was brought to America. He was a handsome winner during his racing career. Last year Baldur did his first stud duty when he was mated with ten mares belonging to Clarence H. Mackay. He has been at the Brookdale Farm since his return from England and was shipped to Kentucky with his companion, Holstein, by J. S. McDonald.
