BOWLED OUT.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 455, 19 March 1890, Page 4

BOWLED OUT.

At the recent V.K.C. Autumn Meeting at Flemington a lady was caught redhanded in manipulating the favourites in the sweeps in the grandstand. According to the “Sportsman” the affair caused considerable consternation, not to say hysterics, among tho fair sex. For years past some eight or ten women have managed to make a very decent livelihood by getting up sweeps at Flemingtop, Caulfield, and other racecourses. ; Strange, owing possibly ; to a curious i combination qf coincidences, when- i ever the favourite won, the lady < who ran the sweep discovered to ( her joy that she had drawn < the favourite herself. As some seven or eight of the fetnale sweep pro- ] moters drew four winners for themselves, i their patrons objected strongly, with the t result that a lady detective and a couple of s male ditto were requested to keep their c eyes open in the stand. A little lady in a black was discovered drawing a sweep on h the Ascot Vale Stakes, and was seen by fi the detectives to fold up a ticket and n conceal it in the palm of her glove. On v examination, the name on this ticket was h found to be Titan. Tho aforesaid little n lady was taken before one of the stewards f< and cautioned that if she was ever caught s< getting up a sweep again at Flemington, d ehe would be warned off the course, and n

probably punished in another way. Then two other women were discovered working the same little game, and they were turned off promptly. The evil has beon growing gradually, and the expulsion of the pair of feminine fielders, who invariably had the favourite safely secured, will, perhaps, prevent a good deal of the little triekytracky business, by which so many lady sweep promoters are credited with supporting their husbands.