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Twenty Years Ago Today Chief Turf Events of April 23, 1905 Sunday, no racing. McLaughlin ha3 ridden thirteen winners in seven days at Union Park, St. Louis. It is rumored that a petition to the Western Jockey Club, asking that the outlaw rule be rescinded, is to be put in circulation for the signatures of owners and trainers. Sinister, winner of the Peconic Handicap, ; is said to be one of the best looking colts in the East. He is by the English stallion Lc Var, a sen of Isonomy. Frank ONeill is pushing Hildebrand hard for the jockey honors at Aqueduct. He has six winning mounts. Hildebrand has seven. Baird and J. Kelly have each ridden five winners. Lyue is next on the list with four. When Miss Inez fell dead in the race for the Tennessee Oaks at Memphis, Charley Ellison gave the carcass of the mare to a track work man. He sold it to a scavenger for . The i scavenger sold the hide for to the agent of a manufacturer of baseballs in Philadelphia. Twelve thousand people were at the opening : of Elm Ridge Park at Kansas City yesterday. | The victory of True Wing in the Kansas City ; Derby was a popular one and many of the | horsemen predict that the filly will prove a | formidable opponent for any of tb.2 western i three year olds.
