Sporting News.
o Nominations for all events at the Feilding Races clus 3 oti Monday ■ evening- at t\»iO. The sura of £75 was rung on to Lady SoiLnus in tho Farewell Handicap at Hastings on Wednesday amid great excitement. The machines were rushed, and people were under the impression that the genial Portland had risked his boots on the mare This naturally induced a number to back her, and she was made a redhot favorite. It has since transpired that a well-known Wellington bookie commissioned a man in writing to put £7 on the mure, and then, altering hia mind about tho capabilities of the animal, rubbed out the figure 7 and substituted 5. The former numeral was not quite oblitej-ated, however, and tbe order read £75. We understand tbe punier has to pay upStandard.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 225, 23 March 1895, Page 2
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