SPORTING NEWS.

Hastings Standard, Issue 309, 29 April 1897, Page 2

SPORTING NEWS.

HOW THE DEAD UN GOT HOME. Twas a mighty man of metal who to the owner said. " Your horss is in good fettle, but you'd better run him dead. Ihe banged-tailed mare might whop him, but to show I mean no ' kid,' If you promise me to stop him, I'll give you tifty quid."' " It's a bargain," .said the owner, and he went to tell the jock To take a pull at Jonah, and although he felt a shock, The rider made no murmur as he answered '• All right boss," "\Miile firmer still and firmer grew the little chestnut 'oss. The layer was a cute 'tin, so he stuck at 6 to 4. (If he d been a less astute 'un he'd have offered 'em some morel. Of backers there were plenty, and when the owner said, "Yes! Thirty pound to twenty!" they could see he wasn't dead. At evens in the running when they'd galloped half-a-mile, This bookie, who was cunning, raked another little pile, The chestnut horse was going well as round the turn they wheel'd, And still he never ceased to veil " A ponv on the held." But a sudden chill came o'er him as he saw that in the straight The favorite, right before him, was coming fast, though late. He gave one long and painful stare —ho couldn't tell which led, But the littlejchestnut caught the mure and did her by a head. While the '• book '' was sadly paying, said the owner in his grief : " W hat game have you been plaving, voti infernal little thief" He come so awful fast, sir, that I didn't have no doubt," Said the boy, that if I pulled him, they'd be suro to rub me out. The bookie lost four hundred, and the owner never •' copped ' The fifty-—but a tenner on the bang-tailed mare he dropped. But at night that little jockey said, " I feel quite up to Dick ! " No wonder lie was cockv—he'd a centurv in his kick ! It s a funny game is racing 1 , as Jemmy Hayes remarked In the witness box, an owner may be very often " narked " If he's jiggin' or a dead 'un, he doesn't always " cop," " There's only one that's certain—and that's the bloke on top !" EG MONT MEETING. The following acceptances have been received : HANDICAP HTRDLKS. st lb st lb 'Swift ... 10 li! Storm King 9 0 Natator ... 0 7

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