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BONDSMAN BARGAIN HORSE One of Three That Cost 00 and Became a Handicap Winner of Good Quality. A Johannesburg exchange tells the following story of a cheap horse : "Bondsman, winner of two Johannesburg Handicaps, was a cheap buy. When in England the Rand jockey, J. Simpson, bought three horses for his brother Joseph. These were Bondsman, Ablaze and Paste, and for the three he paid 00, so that Bondsman represented an outlay of 66.66 2-3. When they arrived here Joseph Simpson had ho room, and the three were hawked and auctioned without finding a buyer until Mr. Laubscher took them. "For him Bondsman won races, and then the possibilities of the big, angular, slab-sided gelding took the eye of W. L. Randall, who purchased the son of Maiden Erlegh for ,500 on behalf of Sir A. Bailey. "In his first venture for Sir Abe, Bondsman split Collet and Cesarewitch in the 1922 Durban July Handicap. Since then Mr. Randall has improved the gelding out of all knowledge. At Auckland Park he easily beat Primus and Emperor of Elba in the run off of a triple dead heat, and his victories in the Johannesburg Autumn and Spring Handicaps rank among the most sensational in the history of our quarterly handicaps."
