MAN WHO HAS JUST BECOME A BARON "DREAMS" WINNERS

Wanganui Chronicle, 18 October 1950, Page 5

MAN WHO HAS JUST BECOME A BARON "DREAMS" WINNERS

From the N.Z.P.A. Correspondent with the English Cricket Team

30-Year-Old Lord Kilbracken On Way To N.Z. Inherits Father’s Title

PERTH (Western Australia), Oct 17 (Reed. 8 p.m.).—The Hon. John Godley is a man who has achieved unusual prominence in racing news because of his ability to dream winners—and eig’vt out of ten of his dreams have come home.

Lord Kilbracken had been in Perth only a few days when he received news of his father’s death. He is on his way to Christchurch, New Zealand, to represent his ■family at the centennial celebrations there next month. The eity was founded by his greatgrandfather, Mr. John Robert Godley, in December, 1850.

The new third Baron Kilbracken began dreaming “winners” at Balliol College, Oxford, when he dreamt that somebody had given him the next day’s newspaper. Next morning he saw in the morning newspaper that his dream horses of the night before —Bindal and Juladin—were both running that afternoon. Lord Kilbracken not only risked a few pounds on his dreams double, but advised his friends also to back it. Bindal won at five to two, and Juladin at five to four.

Almost a month later Lord Kilbracken had another dream. Again he was looking at the racing results. But when he woke he could remember only one winner—Tubermore. No such horse was running that day, but for the next afternoon a horse called Tuberose was entered. The two names were so alike that he decided to take a chance. Tuberose flew home to win at 100 to 6. In the last four years Lord Kil-

bracken has dreamt results of horse races ten times, and eight times the dream horse has won. Once he had to wait almost a year for a dream vinner and gave up hope that his “dream naps” would return but on July 14 he dreamt he was at a race meeting. He was standing near* the winning post and recognised the colours of the leading jockey. They were the Gaekwar of Baroda’s and the jockey was Edgar Britt. The Gaekwar’s horse won easily. Then, in the same dream, the bookies began shouting the odds for the next race. One horse—The Bogie—was at long odds on. The crowd began shouting, “The favourite wins: It’s The Bogie!”—and The Bogie won easily. Lord Kilbracken was so impressed by his ability to dream winners that he has written a book called “Tell Me the Next One,” which, he says, should be on the bookstalls throughout the Dominion. The book gives a detailed and fully-evidenced account of each of his dream winners. Thirty-year-old Lord. Kilbracken will be around Melbourne at Cup time.