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, J I 1 - 1 be: best « win he at at but Dr. Di of of lot of Wi was ie ri .he n bi but ie Ss is a a „ ing st ill ;d W. ly fc for se hi he d. rn je to N and id ™ a a tl gs b ae and nj n ve it lt to ,g |y J se ■ c in_ ¥ sue- 1C. . I Twenty Years Ago Today Chief Turf Events of April 3, 1903 Racine at Washington, Oakland and Mem-phis. 1! Robert Waddell, "Virginia" Bradleys Ameri- • i 1 2 can Derby winner, has been retired on a pen- 3 3 sion down at Mr. Bradleys farm in Virginia, 4 ." t When the horse broke his shoulder a year ago « I 7 last fall Mr. Bradley, who is pretty handy with a cripple, thought he could patch him 1 up for the races again. He succeeded in 1 1 1 bringing the crippled member around all right 2 2 and Robert Waddell showed his gratitude by „ T, 4 breaking the other shoulder. Mr. Bradley then n 5 decided to cut out the patching up business so I 6 far as Robert Waddell was concerned. As Rob ert Waddell is a gelding his days of useful- [- 7 « ness are over, but he will always have the e 1 the farm can produce. 2 Mrs. Frank Foster showed that she could j 3 on a fast track as well as she can on a a ; 4 5 heavy or muddy one. She won the first race e 6 Benning from a good class of selling platers. s after the finish F. J. Lantry, who owns 1S Saylor, which ran second, lodged a claim B foul against her. His claim of foul was ls lodged on the grounds that when Dr. Saylor r making his run in the homestretch Mrs. s. Frank Foster swerved over and impeded his horses progress. The claim was not allowed, j it was true that the filly did impede Dr. r. Saylor, because in the last sixteenth after ■ taking the lead she tired suddenly and swerved rtl over toward the inner rail, causing jockey »y Burns to pull Dr. Saylor up to avoid crash- Q- into her. After missing a day without winning a purse C. Dalys Colonsay won his daily purs? him, mainly due to the energetic ride that at received from jockey Odom. His winning Qg margin was only a head and he only managed ed get that in front in the last few strides. When the fitld in this race hit the head of of the stretch Little Boy was leading, with Spring- ig- brook and Star and Garter following, and Co- lonsay in sixth place. After the turn was made Springbrook and Star and Garter gave up and Little Advocate and Colonsay rushed the front. Little Advocate, a hundred yards from the end, looked like a sure winner. but he had jockey Odom to reckon with. The I crack jockey fairly lifted his mount across the winning line to get the verdict by a head.
