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Twenty Years Ago Today Chief Turf Events of April 2 1903 Racing at Washington Oakland and Mem ¬ phis phisThere There is even prospect that the colors of J Story Curtis the South African millionaire will be seen on the metropolitan tracks this year Mr Curtis is a Virginian born and bred but made his money in the land of the Kaffirs and is always known as the South African millionaire 1 S Mott manager of his farm at Leesburg Va is at Benning now with five or six horses that he expects to race up the line this year Mr Mott was late with his application for stable room and could not be accommodated at the course and had to stable his horses outside the track Mrs Frank Foster is the most consistent horse now racing at Benning She could al ¬ most be called an iron horse running daily or every other day and winning with reg ¬ ularity There were only three opponents for her to dispose of today and one of them gave her the race of her life only succumb ¬ ing in the last stride by a head Directly after the start the filly took a lead of eight lengths and it looked as though the race was already over but Mrs Frank Foster even though she win has a habit of tiring right at the finish and today was no exception Shrine after following her far back in the first half of the race gradually cut her lead down and in the stretch the two battled it out the last eighth of a mile with the filly just lasting long enough to get the judges verdict verdictJ J Arthurs threeyearold Halma colt Bond ¬ age scored his fifth straight win today at Memphis in the last race He had to do some tall sprinting to get to the front but once there he held his lead and was going away at the end He did not have the best of rac ¬ ing luck in getting away from the barrier his opponents jamming together and crowding him back just as starter Fitz Gerald released it Bondage lost quite a bit of ground because of this jam but Robbins gave him his head and before the rest had traversed half of the mile and seventy yards he was at their heels There was no chance for him to get through near the inner rail and jockey Robbins elected to take him around the others which he did and in fifty yards Bondage was out in front and gaining ground with every stride After talcing a lead of two lengths Robbins took hold of him and was looking back all through the stretch James F set the pace until Bondage passed him and he was easily best of the others Farmer Jim took third money
