HOW THE POT BOILED OVER.

Bush Advocate, Volume I, Issue 79, 6 November 1888, Page 2

HOW THE POT BOILED OVER.

A SAD STORY OP GHASTLY GOODWOOD. (DunedinSfar Correspondent.) London, August 10. The Sussex f ortnight has up to the present resulted in. a series of experiences — meteorological and speculative— which , oan only 'be described as tragio. Erpm that fatal Tuesday afternoon, at ghastly, gruesome, . goloshy (anything but glorious) Goodwood, when the Steward's Cup certainty Bismarck, after romping three-fourths of the way home ten lenths in front of his field, swerved across the course opposite the stand and got caught absolutely on the post by Tib, we poor backers have had a deplorable time. I nerer saw such a piece of bad luck as the Bismarck catastrophe. The horse had won the race so far at the distance that , Satiety, Bullion, and other heavilybacKed animals were pulled up. Blake on Tib persevered solely for the sake of getting a place. What evil demon inspired Bismarck's jockey I can't imagine. He had only- to sit still to win by many lengths. Instead of that, opposite the stand he took up his whip and gave Bismarck a cut. Instantly the horse swerved right across the oourso, losing in the operation several lengths. Warne ; - = had , to steady him to prevent their coming to grief over the rails', and before he could set his mount going again the post was passed, and Tib had just won. "A short head," was Judge Clark's verdict. Arthur Cooper, Bismarck's owner, stood to win £10,000 over the race, and Johnny O'Neil had £1,500 on at an average of Uto 1. The latter also, laid IQQ to. 1- on the horse in the running. It was ; altogether too tragio. Tib was well backed 1, 2, 3, but 20 to 1 could have been had about her winning outright. :" Captain Machell considers Satiety would have won had Robinson not pulled, u|> wheft h,e Bi*t

H fiip«ikoi#i" ctop^ed^the field, i;aid i^teMarvwas also: going very "Or&ti&iJSlfi'fjfcrew gained the third vpl^e^on sufierance only. '■■ : ';'" ijaier iii^K#®teMioon the crack vSatietyjkfil^^j^tpnQthing in a; 'malch wi^^rU^Ellesmere's Esta-; Tlie feelings of plungers who had •JaidvlOto- 1 on Satiety were; simply inJesoribable;; •: " 'Since ; Geheimniss - went4own' before jfarcissa at Ascot years iago we have had nothing quiteiUke it. * On Wednesday, in the Sussex. Stakes, for, three^yea^olds, we were treated to,yet another surprise, Seabreeze, Os^ory, Estaf ette,' arid Sheen . iu&uiiiiiing to an unknown filly of ; called Zanzibar (by ] Slefiinjt~iiady Paramount). Rotten ; g^u^cPprobably explains this form, and Seabreeze will show very diffetfefotly at Doncaster. ' The hitherto^ almost* invincible Donovan's defeat by El Dorado was also put down)to the same cause. t ; r Tlie Duke of Westminster's two-year-olds Fleur-de-Lys (a whole sister to "Ormonde), Ormiiz (by -Bend Oi?~Douranee), Oscar (by Beh^i'Or^-Pjeis , and Rydal (a ,t^uaSeri' ; to;^Kendal) came to Gpodwith great reputations from; pSigsolisre, but failed,;; withi .the" exception of; Rydal (who won : the ,3Fiiidpii Stakes), to score. Fleur-de-Lys looks a grand animal, and will .probably ijustify:, her appearance in., .the,\ season; Curiously enough, ;m the .home ., trial Eydal was only third best. , * (Juite an old-ifasnioned fieldr o^ a dozsn turned out for the Goodwood Stalf es, yfych .fell to the favourite,; after, a , £^e^eral;e ; race with the raoikest out|j|4e^ M of tne party, Clan^Chattan, jwxffi^ wKom, the B9ndigo-r-!B.arclay tcK^ue^ -)^d ;planiied a nice little ;