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Twenty Years Ago Today Chief Turf Events of April 29, 1905 Racing at Jamaica, Pimlico, Nashville, Kansas City, San Francisco, Union Park and Fair Grounds at St. Louis. Jockey Duppe .sustained a broken collar bone when he fell with John E. Owens at Kansas City today. Judge Himes and Devout refused to leave with the others in the third race when starter Holtman sprung the barrier. Judge Himes had to be whipped hard before he would move. He has developed into a sulker. This was the last day of racing of the Pimlico Jockey Clubs spring meeting and it was a good one in the matter of attendance. There was not much, however, in the way of racing. The chief event was the Harford Cup, for gentlemen riders, and it was won by the Chel sea Stables De Russy, with Mr. Jones in the saddle. It was the second victory for this rider at the meeting and he bids fair to take the place of Mr. Taylor as the b?st gentleman rider in the South. There will not be a vacant stall at Churchill Downs when the New Louisville Jockey Club opens its spring meeting May 10 and ever stable in the vicinity of the noted old racing ground will have been preempted to the use cf the horses barred from occupation of the tracks in Illinois through the regretable mandate of the states attorney at Chicago. The Churchill Downs meeting will continue six- teen days. The Kentucky Derby, to be run on the opening day, will, of course, be the feature race of the meeting. In truth, the Derby promises to be this year the best race contested between three-year-clds in the West this year. Agile, Rams Horn and Dr. Leggo, three of the probable contestants, are* of better class than any trio of three-year-olds that have battled for the Kentucky Derby since the days when Colonel M. Lewis Clark held forth.
