TIPS BY SECOND SIGHT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20922, 11 July 1931, Page 3 (Supplement)

TIPS BY SECOND SIGHT.

THREE WINNERS EVERY" DAY.

WOMAN'S AMAZING GIFT.

It is claimed that second sight has enabled Mrs. Dora Vickerstaff, of Marblethorpe, Lincolnshire, to tip 1400 racehorse winners in fourteen years. Nothing'but a certain terror of her uncanny gift, and a reluctance to bet except in small amounts, has, it is asserted, prevented her from making large sums of money. Mrs. Vickerstaff, who is the wife of a bassoon player and the daughter of a retired London policeman, says a Sunday Express correspondent, is a typical rosycheeked country girl with fair hair and bright eyes. .She claims that she tips three winners a day, and studies the facing programme carefully. It was related by Mrs. Vickerstaff recently, how, 14 years ago, when she was working at a hotel in Scarborough, she discovered her gift. " I found fchafc a glance through the list of horses seemed to enable me to spot the winner weeks and months before the running of the race," she said, " and I have been able to find them ever since.

" I have been puzzled and frightened by this second sight. I was first alarmed when one day I could see my mother, who was miles away at Doncastei', being taken to hospital seriously ill. ' She had to have her leg amputated.. It was terrifying. I brooded over it, and decided to stick to horse racing. " Everybody pesters me for tips, but I only give them to relatives and close friends. My husband, who is in the Scottish Orchestra, was delighted at my success, but I know so much unhappiness has been caused by betting that I begged him not to back my tips for more than a shilling at a time." Mrs. Vickerstaff's tip for this year's Derby—given 18 days before the racewas Estate Duty. This horse did not win. *