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Twenty Years Ago Today Chief Turf Events of March 18, 1904 Racing at New Orleans, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Hot Springs. Tomorrow will mark the arrival of several carloads of horsc3 at Banning and by the end of the week everybody will be on hand. J. E. Madden is expected in tomorrow with thirty horses, including Robin Hood, City Bank, Pulsus and Whorler. Horsemen who keep tab3 on what the horses are doing in their early spring work say that the Ben-ning Spring Handicap will go to one of the Madden horses. J. W. Schorr has announced he docs not intend to start his three-year-cld filly Sweet Gretchen in the Montgomery Handicap. It is supposed that this statement is made in order that no one would make the mistake of playing her in the future books on the race, where she is quoted at the tempting odds of 50 to 1. With Sweet Gretchen out, the Schorr Stable will still have two candidates in the race, Dutiful and Duelist. Six horsss were originally nominated for the race, Injunction. Moharib and Montebank, have all been declared, and the withdrawal of Sweet Gretchen leaves but two. Jockey Dominick rode the winners of the first three races on the card at Hot Springs, two of them being from the Schreiber Stable. Ameriana in tha first and Axares in the second were easy winners, but Dominick had to use all his skill and knowledge to land Pic-quart home a winner in the third race. In the latter race Mamselb was best and it looked as if she would win up to midway of the stretch, but here, however, Dominick, who had rated Picquart along easily and conserved his speed for the final dash, rushed his mount up to the leader and in a hard drive outrode Mclntyre to win by a head. MamseIe was unlucky to lose. She had a commanding lead in the stretch, but Mclntyre took things easy and was caught napping. The Fiddler, which finished third, ran a good race, this being his first start in some time, but lack of condition told and he tired badly.
