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Twenty Years Ago Today Chief Turf Events of April 9, 1905 Sunday, co racing. J. V. Shipp will rebuild the barn burned at hi* Sunny blope Farm a few days ago. The new building will be built with outlets for the horses in ca*e of fire. Owing tn the rapidity with which the flames spread he was unable : to get the horsei out of the barn that was i destroyed. A. J. Kyle will take only one horse with him from New Orleans when he goes to New York. The colts name is Cablegram, by Mazaan Over the Sea. Cablegrams trials , here this spring have been on the sensational order. Thursday to worked a half mile with 130 pounds up in 48 seconds. Matt Allen has j I beeO after the colt. Allen wired H. M. Mason tod*y to see Kyle and have him put a price on the youngster. Made over from the tumble down barns, the rickety betting shed and the decaying grand stand and clubhouse standing as they did in the later nineties on grounds from which the enclosing fence had gone to replenish winter fires in a nearby n°gro settlement, Captain Browns Lexington race courre is row one of the prettiest and best appointed plants in the South. The track is in splendid condition and the 350 horses quartered in the new barns are being sent along briskly. In another week they will be going at a racing clip and a better line on the two year olds will be obtainable.
