SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 203, 25 February 1914, Page 7

SPORTING.

AUSTRALIAN KACIXG. ' FLEMINOTOX NOTES. By Cable—Press Association —Copyright Flemington, February 24. Mountain Princess did 0 furlongs in Imin. Averse did G furlongs in lmin. 21scc; Four Flush, sprinted li furlongs in lmin. lOscc.; Lord Walla and Tadaga dashed over half a mile in Msec: Xuwara Eliya covered half a mile in 52.5ee.; Sirkar reeled oil' .") furlongs in lmin. 7see.; Widgiewa flitted over (i furlongs in lmin. l'.Kscc; Harpist sprinted a furlongs in lmin. Ssit. ; Andelosia and Oaggue galloped 10 furlongs in 2min. HiVisec.; liadnor heat Rameses over 13 furlongs in ,'imin.; Diabolo dashed over half a mile in 545.-o.) Audacity galloped a mile well: Calamus without shoes, ran over a mile in lmin. 45'/iSec.; Quair Burn reeled off n furlongs in lmin. 20sec: Peck of Malt took lmin. Ssec. to cover a furlongs; Delphic rushed over 10 furlongs in 2min. 20'/2sec.; Cider ran li furlongs in lmin. lS'/iseC; Philo did h furlongs in lmin. osec; lownit nnd Captain While galloped 7 furlongs in lmin .'liyiscc; Piizelightert and Matonree covered 12 rnrlongs in 2min. oDsec: and Popinjay ran half a mile in r>2sc».

As most people who go racing know, < it is always a risky proceeding, when waiting at the pay-out window, to take tickets for collection from strangers, as those thus accepted may be "crookies." and then there is an argument as to whose tickets were wrong when the totalisator has refused them, and possibly the collector pays out of bis own pocket to avoid fuss (states a writer in the Hawera Star). This "try on" is fairly well known, so much so thai at the Xcw Plymouth races an enterprising individual of the ''guesser" persuasion is said to have utilised it to obtain a dividend to which he had no title. The "guesser" was in the race, and sonic trustful person passed him a genuine ticket to collect. He took it. but as if on second thoughts, handed one back for the giver to endorse on the back "to avoid risk of argument." The trustful one. without examining it. endorsed what lie thought was his own ticket, but. so the story goes, the obliging collector had "rung the changes." and the victim had put his name to a "crook" ticket. Then when the argument came his own signature was there to discredit his version of the occurrence.