DREW TRIVALVE IN CUP-WON £20,000

Manawatu Times, Volume LII, Issue 6454, 11 November 1927, Page 7

DREW TRIVALVE IN CUP-WON £20,000

Two Aucklanders With “Millionaire” Feeling

STRANGE DREAM PARTLY

TRUE

[“Times” Special.] AUCKLAND, Last Night.

Twenty thousand pounds ! How does it feel like to win it ? Two Aucklanders who won a Melbourne Cup sweep for that amount have experienced it* whereas most folk have got no nearer to it than dream.

Mr. S. Adeano and Mr. P. O'Brien, to whom this good fortune came two days ago, are still going on with lb* job—Mr. Adeane in his shirt sleeves managing the affairs of his printery in Hobson street and Mr. P. O’Brien, his partner, out the country on a business tour. When the nows ?came through Mr. Adeane says he wasn't disturbed in the least. Ho wired his partner, Mr. O'Brien and ,thc latter had only a slight shock. “ I’ll tell you how it all came about.” said Mr. Adeane, with a quizzical smile. “ There is romance in it. We had a little bit of luck, my partner and I being gamblers in a small way. We won a pound or two over the National meeting, so my partner was keen to have a pot at the sweep, thinking it might he- our lucky year and thinking wo might as well try the big stuff as the small if our luck was going to hold. Wc sent for two tickets in the £1 Consultation. Dreams F.ncouragcd Them.

“ It was about here tliat the little romance came in. The morning before I came down my wife told me- of a strange dream that I had struck a double for £3OOO. Of course I laughed at the idea. Never in my sane senses would I have backed a. double for that amount, but I did make a mental note of it and when I got to work and my partner talked about the sweep I told him what Mrs. Adeane had dreamed and then nothing would stop him. Didn’t Believe It. “ So we sent to an address and I forgot about everything until one morning about a week after the race the mail came in. But, I was plugging away at a job and too busy to attend to the letter, so I tossed it on the office table for my daughter and wont on working. She opened it, and of course when she saw our number against Trivalve she made slight noises about it. but I wouldn’t fall for it and kept on working at my job. “ I kept on working until she tricked mo with the story that she couldn’t got some proofs to agree, so then I came in and there it was. It didn’t disturb me a bit. I did the only sane thing. I rang up the bank manager and when I found that there was a mail to ‘Aussie’ that night 1 just sent the ticket duly endorsed and everything, so that is the story of how a Melbourne Cup sweep came to Auckland.” A follower of racing, Mr. Adeane follows the horses fairly closely. Miss Adeane says that he can tell “ every winner from the year 1.” Mo follows form and sometimes has the rewards of good judgment, though Trivalve was sheer luck such as folk dream about rather than moot in real life. He was the owner of the horse on which Jimmy Buchanan had his first win in Gisborne- 35 years ago. His next reminiscence of the racing game was when Mabufonga won the Auckland Cup in 1904.

In 1914 when his brother went to the war Mr. Adeane took bis place on tho totalizator staff: “I got pretty close to the sport then and I have followed it over since. “ Then I used to print the * Times and Sporting News’ so I had racing for breakfast, dinner and tea,” said Mr. Adeane. “ But I haven’t any wild ideas of buying racehorses or anything like that. I’m still content to try my luck in a milder way.’