QUEER LUCK OF BETTORS.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 406, 18 February 1904, Page 3

QUEER LUCK OF BETTORS.

loiue OliHtakeu Made in iliickiajj morses Thai Turned Out Men who go racing suffer from quaint hallucinations, and at times* wit!i v; berieficial results, 'Says-the London Sketch. At Goodwood this year a wcll-ktinwn writer came across a man who professed to have backed the winner 'in the Steward's cup. When asked why, lie calmiy referred bis' questioner to the good race O'Donovrin ltossa had won at Newmarket 'a Week or l two previously. A "book" was produced and the •race hunted up, but'the winner was O'lmnoglme, and the Stewards* cup * winner: did not run in that race. Last Cambridgeshire day, after the race so beautifully wqii by Sloan on fincoruhe, i asked an acquaintance what soft 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"rat Stanton, advising him to back the good thing and that Wadlow hacl just ,got .the, horse to hia hiring. Added to which he gave me many other details conoerning 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 Mm that be,< had backed Echelon. Rut he-had not. Through some mistake he had backed Encombe for Echelon, and, what is. more, he backed a winner.', ~,