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Twenty Years Ago Today Chief Turf Events of Dec. 24, 1904 Racing at New Orleans, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Distribution of the Hot Springs Jockey Club3 program book is regarded as assurance t every one that racing will bogin there on January 7, as scheduled, regardless of the Western Jockey Clubs action at the stewards meeting on January 3. Nevertheless the date question is not considered S3tt!ed and Essex Park still hopes to receive the stewards sanction for its original twenty-one days from.thc middle of February to the middle of March. The horses belonging to John W. Schorr and in charge of trainer Louis Tauber at Montgomery Park, Memphis, Tenn., number twenty-one and only five of these ar;? yearlings. It was not Mr. Schorrs intention to buy any yearlings, but more to oblige a friend and on the chance that there might be a good one in the band he added the quintet to his string. Floral King ran a race today which settles beyond doubt his right to be classed with the topnotchcrs at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans. He carried top weight in the Christmas Handicap and mads such horses as Orthodox. I Gay and Telescope look cheap. The son of j Giganteum and Rosa Regina proved clearly ! that the heavy track was no hindrance to trainer McCoulshey in his preparatory opera tions. He made every post a winning one after once settling into his stride and at the end was going easily one length and a half before Gregor K., while, Au Revoir was pushing the latter hard a neck in the rear. Eight started and the net value was 1,455.
