WOMAN RACEGOER'S ASHES.
SCATTERED ON COURSE. LONDON, May 2G. In accordance with her Inst wishes, the ashes of Mrs. Jano Hullah, a constant visitor to't he races at Wetherby, Yorkshire, were conveyed to the course before tho start of the Whit Monday mooting.
Eight people carried the casket containing the ashes to the course. Her husband and her daughter left the others and opened the casket at tho water jump. Tho daughter withdrew a cloth and a shower of white ashes fell out. More ashes followed when the casket was shaken.-
The bookmakers bared their heads. The mourners then backed tho favourites, in accordance with Mrs. Mullah's wishes, and patronised her customary bookmaker. Apparently Mrs. Hullah's remarkable luck perished with her, becauso no favourites won and the party ceased backing them after a few beta.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20889, 3 June 1931, Page 9
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