Gee Up, Gloaming

NZ Truth, Issue 1197, 8 November 1928, Page 19

Gee Up, Gloaming

no women really have luck m backing . "gees'*? One hears' wild " rumors, from time to time, of some sweet young: thing who has put her worldly all on a horse—in between periods of putting powder on her nose— and, when the beast stalks home a thousand-to-one winner, the legend goes around that she backed it because Ejhe liked the way. its mane curled. , True or otherwise as these, tales may be,- "tips"

are usually most confusing things to a mere woman, who, even' if she correctly assimilates the name of the norse which is picked' by experts as "likely," nearly always forgets the precise race', m which said animal is expected- to "do its stuff." After half-a-dozen attempts m which her horses; probably start to win the moment she decides -to back something else, she plunges oh some strange beast. ' Sometimes the unexpected happens v. .