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Twenty Years Ago Today Chief Turf Events of March 17, 1904 Racing at New Orleans, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Hot Springs. The yearlings now at The Nursery, and with which, as two-year-olds, August Belmoiit will return to turf activity in 1905, are an exception lot. Of these young thoroughbreds, the largest is a colt called Flint Flamm, by Margrave Fetish. Interesting breeding this, for the sire of the yearling is a son of St. Blaise, and his dam is a daughter of Feu Follct. St. Blaise and Feu Follet was the mating which gave to the turf St. Florian, the stoutest of all the competitors of His Highness, and by many believed to b?, with equal opportunities, the peer of that great two-year-old. In a few more days the eastern racing season opens at thz Benning track. There already has been a considerable exodus of men and horses from Shecpshead Bay, Gravesend. Brighton and Morris Park, but there are many more to follow, and most of them will go this we;k. Not since last December has there been racing nearer to New York than the meeting at New Orleans, and the followers of the turf arc enthusiastic over the near approach of a resumption of racing with fair reaching distance. Horsemen in and around New York those who have been kept there for one reason or another have had almost an unendurable winter. The rigor of the weather has bc;n more severe than the oldest inhabitant can remember, and in February, when it is usually possible to begin the preparation of a thoroughbred for the season campaign, it was impossible to take a horse out on any of the metropolitan tracks.
