A Close Race.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 21 October 1890, Page 2

A Close Race.

The Sporting and Dramatic has the following story of racing in Buenos Ayres There was at a certain race meeting a horse that i looked to be a good thing ; the judges at any rate thought it was, and backed it freely, but at Buenos Ayres — as elsewhere - good things do not invariably come off, and at the distance the favourite was well beaten, and an outsider won by three or fouc lengths. This was a blow, but an idea occurred to one of the judges, the other jumped at it, and the result was that the favourite's number was put up as having won. This was too flagrant a swindle to be borne placidly, more particularly by those who had backed the real winner, and as in Buenos Ayres men go racing with revolvers in their pockets, the judgos' stand was surrounded by an angry mob, bent — pistols in hand -on convincing the three judges that they had made a miitake. Arguments backed by powder and lead proved convincing, and the judges were brought to see that they had made a mistake, and at once proceeded to rectify it by hoisting the number of the actual winner. But this was doubly disappointing to the backers of the animal whole Dunk h»A him grit «p i fcfet? JmA

gone to draw their mouey and did not like losing it, so in their turn they surrounded the judge's stand, pistols in hand. The judges were once mrein a plight. What was to be done ? At last the inveutive one of the ti""o hit upon an expedient h it hi* friends jumpfld, the numbe wis pulled ctown and i was declaie I a dead heat