HOW THE FAVOURITE WON.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVI, Issue 8087, 1 April 1895, Page 1

HOW THE FAVOURITE WON.

Mi; Duval, the advanco agent of the Pollard company, tells tho following little story o£ a Queensland-sporting incident: "One day I went to Charters Towers,\vberea race meeting was being held. They bad a toto working, and the total on the first race was good enough for about a"thou," the aocumulated spondulixof tho whole district. The usual shot bird, favourite had sopped up fully three parts of the available, but there was one rank-looking outsider backed by a syndicate representing four five-bobs and by the usually lucky Celestial. The' duffer' won with his mouth open, amidst, an impressive silence,whereupon a breath less steward rushed into the judge's box, and with wild pantomimic gestures explained a number of things to that dignitary, whocalmy hauled up the figures to show that the favorite got home first, and notwithstanding that the syndicate joined the Chinaman in a wild indignant protestative whoop, they paid out on the public fancy, a course which naturally fitted in with popular sentiment. I happened to be talking to that steward later on," continues. Mr Duval, "and'l asked him what his game was." "Well," he replied, "if those two had mopped up that coin we would have had to have j broken the meeting off right there, and it vvasu'fc good enough to risk it."