QUEER LUCK OF BETTORS.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 404, 4 February 1904, Page 6

QUEER LUCK OF BETTORS.

•erne Ktetalcea Made In Baeklsg florae* That Turned Ont All Right. Msn who go racing suffer from quaint hallucinations, and at times with beneficial results, says the London Sketch. At Goodwood this year a well-known writer came across a man who professed to have backed the winner in the Steward's cup. When asked why, he calmly referred/ his questioner to the good race O'Donovan Eossa had won at Newmarket a week or two previously. A "book" was produced and the race hunted up, but the winner was O'Donoghue, and the Stewards' cup winner did not run in that race. Last Cambridgeshire day, after the race so beautifully won by Sloan on ; Enoombe, I asked an acquaintance what sort of a race he had had. It turned out to be a satisfactory one. He proceeded to inform me that he; had received a wire from somebody "in the know" at Stanton, advising 1 him to back, the good thing and that Wadlow had just got the horse to his liking. Added to which he gave me many other details concerning the! animal and its owner. "Pardon me," I ventured to say, "you have mixed things up a little." I took his race card and showed him that he had backed Echelon. But he had not. Through some mistake he had backed Encombe for Echelon, and, what is more, he baeked a winner.