FRIDAY’S VICTORY.
In connection with the most unexpected win by the Duke of Hamilton’s Friday, 'of the Goodwood Cup, a good story is going the rounds of the English sporting Press. It is related that on making the bend for home, Friday showed very strong symptoms of having had nearly enough racing, and slackened his pace as if disposed to drop into a trot. At this juncture unexpected aid came in the person of a rustic, stationed by the side of the course. Sympathising, perhaps, with the youthful rider of Friday, he called out, “Get on boy, they're catching ye fast I” at the same time rattling his stick vigorously in his hat. Alarmed, encouraged, or, at any rate, moved in some way by the noise, Friday began to gallop again, and continued to do so, bringing about, as all the world knows, one of the most extraordinary surprises in the annals of racing.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2967, 28 September 1882, Page 3
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154FRIDAY’S VICTORY. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2967, 28 September 1882, Page 3
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