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I ! . Twenty Years Ago Today Chief Turf Events cf April 2, 1905 Sunday, no racing. M. L. Hayman has purchased the gelding Sunglow from August Belmcnt. The price was said to be ,000. Jockey Bonner, who received the ultimatum from the Pacific Coast Jcckey Club Saturday to report to W. B. Jennings at Oakland within twenty-four hours, failed to do so and was ruled off. Woodford Clay ?ent Flying Ship to Allan-a-Dale this spring. The result of this mating will be watched with a great deal of interest, nnce both the sire and dam have to their credit miles in better than 1 :40. Allan-a-Dale ran his mile in 1 :37Vf, at Washington Park in 1903 and Hying Ship circled the same track in the Englewood Stakes the same year in 1:39%. May Hempstead, the star of the matrons at Hal Price Headleys Beaumont Farm, near Lexington. Ky., recently slipped twins to ths cover of Ornament. May Hempstead was barren in 1904, but in tha four seasons sh? has been bred she has had two foals, both by Ornament. The first is Golden Green, now three years old, and Tsara, which will make her debut with the two-year olds this spring. Gold Heels will serve something like fifty mares at Mill Brook, the farm of Hinde and Baker, in Franklin County, Ky. The first efforts of this great horse as a sire wera made in the spring of 1903 and he will, of course, not be represented on the turf until next year. His second crop tf foals are just now coming on at Mill Brook, though to date only one, a bay filly out of Wings, the daughter of Gallantry, has been dropped.
