DERBY WINNERS REVEALED BY DREAMS.

Hastings Standard, Volume XIII, Issue 4204, 10 July 1909, Page 1 (Supplement)

DERBY WINNERS REVEALED BY DREAMS.

The Derbv is an event which for a long time ahead figures in racing meivs thoughts by day and their dreams by night : and so superstitious are some or the fraternity that, when they happen to dream of a particular horse entered for the race, they will back that animal and no other. . In more than a single instance the horse has won. Perhaps the most remarkable case of this kind was in connection with the sensational Derby of the year 1398. A certain London Stockbroker was a most ardent Derb\ite, and always made a point of having a £ou note on the great classic event. „ A few nights before it came off he had a most vivid dream, in which he saw a horse known as Jeddah win. He told his friends about it next morning, but they only laughed at the idea of such a rank outsider winning. But the stockbroker had already made up his mind that Jeddah should carry his money and he backed the animal with his toO, despite the jeers of his sceptical friends. What the result was is a matter of history, for, as all the world knows, Jeddah was first past the winning-post. So the laugh was with the stockbroker in the end, as well as something more substantial. With his £oo he won £.3,000, the odds being 100 to *• £4,000 WON THROUGH A DREAM. Much the same thing happened when the horse known as Sir Hugo proved the winner of the Derby u' st seventeen years ago. A sporting horsedealer m the countv of Essex, who had just made a purchase of four horses, dreamt the night before the race that one of them had won it. , The exciting struggle presented to him in his dream made a deep impression on his mind. The fact that the winner's name was Sir Hugo struck him as something more than a mere coincidence, and he could not resist the temptation to back the horse so named in the real event. , ~ He was so confident about the result that he speculated £IOO on Sir Hugo at 40 to 1; and. thanks to his dream he found himself £4.000 the richer at the conclusio.n of the race. a'sporting composi ior. . A remarkable dream was reported m connection with the Derby of IS/o. It was the happy experience of a sporting compositor on one of the London daily newspapers. The most marvefrous tiling about this Derby dream was ttrr.t at the time it was dreamt the winner had not even been named. In his dream the compositor had been given a "take" to set up, winch ran: "The winner of the Derby has now received a name; it is Kisber.' Such was th© designation eventually bestowed on the • It "which won, t > tie prrter s unbounded delight, if nnt'to his i" 1 "-'.'' 1 • r Tu hark hack to the Deiov ot 18P2 r.tr a moment, an fid St'ssP^'prw-r wv> said to hii.c- won Ho W than on it in conseqnem e of #> dream, i,• r«* are tew srevi of this class who o<> . it tako an interest in the great event. . . ~ Well, a few nights belore it u ' <r -- this farmer, who was blessed with a son named Hugh, had a dream m which he saw his sons and his "men ' running a race over the Derby course, which his son Hugh won in a canter, so to speak. No ordinary betting man would have dreamt of taking a tip from such a vision of the night, but the farmer was a firm believer in dreams. Indeed, he had such faith in this particular one that he plunged on Sir Hugo to the tune of £7OO at odds of 40 to 1. which turned his hundreds into four times as manv thousands. HERMIT'S LONG ODDS. There are more romances associated with the Derbv of 1867, when Hermit wen the Blue Ribbon at the odds of 66 to 1, than are told of any other. A , London enthusiast was said to have won thmnch putting £IOO on that rank outsider as the result of a

dre.: in. He declared, if re- ..rtl be true, that in hi« r pH- 1. * xlie race run as it was in the >*4uu! event, even to the TKtnbi* At any rate, he had the curate to kpck the winner in Lis ">nd enjoyed the experience of a lifetime m ft, c tracriitMrv of en rice and *•. fK,. TK-r'-v nnn* ts>.» !»-** Several days before the event came off. it was reported in the newspapers that the little blind daughter of a certain member of Parliament had dreamt that Mrs. Butterteick had won the Oaks. A CHILD'S DREVM COMES TRTE. It was futhermore stated that the young dreamer's father had been so much impressed by the circumstance that lie risked a small fortune on the animal th'i-s named. What carried more weight with him than anything else was the fart that, although the child had never heard the name of a racehorse before, she had the clearest impression of the name of the horse of her dream and of the particular race. Moreover, she was able to accurately spell the name next morning. A great deal of curiosity was evinced as to whether the dream would be fulfilled. which it was in the amplest manner possible. It afterwards transpired that literally thousands of persons, a great many of whom belonged to the fair sex, had been led to back Mrs. But-terwi-k solely throuch seeing the dream reported in the newspapers.' Many of them had never made a be» in their lives before— and probably have not since—but. all the same, some were lncky erioiigh to win considerable fortunes through the M.P.'s little daughter's dream.