BETTOR'S FORTUNE.
£IBO,OOO AND NO WILL. METHODS AND SUPERSTITION. / LONDON. Feb. 1!). Starting as a poor hoy and winning £2O by picking first, second, third, and fourth prizes in a newspaper competition, Charles David Beattie became one of the biggest professional backers ft'r the history of horse-racing. Beattie died leaving £IBO,OOO without a will because he believed that making a will was tantamount to signing his death warrant. Beattie was equally superstitious about insurance, believing that a policy would result in a fire or an accident. Beattie married Miss Nell Emerald, music hall star and sister of Stanley Lupino, who says that her husband's first coup was ginning £30,000 on the Cambridgeshire. A wonderful judge of the form of horses, Beattie never pluijged heavily when luck was against him in an effort to recoup his losses. Once he lost £17,000 in six W«ks, but he just kept cool and waited for his luck to turn.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21115, 24 February 1932, Page 10
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