"Sweep" Investors.

Manawatu Herald, 12 January 1899, Page 3

" Sweep" Investors.

—4 Io reference to the influence of sweeps tm racing " Terlinga," in the Australasian, gives some interesting infon»' i tioß. Writing of the gathering of racing men in Bendigo on the eve oj the Sandhurst Gap the sweep - wap, foe qaeßtion of the hour, and far ar jd away the most important man in 7 Jendigo was Mr Phil. Glenister, who Was doleing out bits cf sweep or telling inquiring owners and trainers. ** There is nothing for you yet." Phil., it must be stated for the benefit of' the uninitiated, is Tattersall's agent and nearly all the sweep money is laid off through him. Some drawers, of course, communicate with owner or trainer direct, but generally they instruct Tattersall at Hobart, and he rends on to Mr Glenister to do the business. There was hardly a horse in the Gup that went out without a nice bit of the sweep to urge him on his way. Some owner 3 could not get the money, and scratched. The demands of some were altogether out of reason, and it remains to be seen ■ whether people who keep the sweeps < going will continue to put their: money into small races, now they j know they must submit to be black j mailed by the owner, or not get a ' run for their ticket. That the j drawers must give in to the owners j was made very clear in connection i with the Sandhurst Gup. There was one amusing case which shows the length some owners will go to. Mr Glenister offered the owner of a j horse that could not have won with j a furlong start £1,000 to nothing i about a win. " Ob, that's no good," , --- said the owner, and he got nothing. • the horse ran afterwards, and was , beaten in the Jumpers' Flat Race i The owner of Lochaber got £1,000 j out of the sweep, while J. E. Brewer ; and B. Lewis received £250 each. I The drawer of Tecoma was very '] fttfp£i*ral with her owner, Mr Jang win h £750 for running second, but very little Action money was laid 00 the table." ;