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Twenty Years Ago Today Chief Turf Events of August 28, 1904 Sunday, no racing. Adolph Sprcckels, who arrived home from Europe just in time to see the Futurity, will Temain in New York throughout the Coney Island meeting. Mr. Spreckels is the proprietor of Napa Farm in California. He will remain here for his yearling sales. Andy Piatt was an arrival from the East and says that Artful had been tabbed by the really wise for more than a month as having the best chance in the Futurity and. that all the touts in the East were doing Broadway in their glad rags Saturday night. It is doubtful if Fort Hunter will go to the post again this year. In his race for the Saranac Handicap at Saratoga the Canadian three-year-old bowed in the near foreleg. Fort Hunter was rated as one of the best three-year-olds shown at Saratoga and it was the intention of trainer John Dyment to ship him to Sheepshead Bay. The Globe, a stable companion of Fort Hunter, also bowed a tendon in the first race the same day.
