A GOODWOOD ANECDOTE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXV, Issue 11788, 26 September 1913, Page 3

A GOODWOOD ANECDOTE.

It is often said that Goodwood races enjoy freedom from the presence of that .class o. racegoer whose company could be easily dispensed with, but who usually insists on attending. The expedience of a journalist friend at a Goodwood meeting a year or two ago discounts (says the Daily Citizen correspondent) this statement liberally. He was crossing Tattersall's King while going about his work, when His eye fell upon an object on the ground. A second glance assured him that it was a roll of bank-notes; a fat wad that had probably fallen from the pocket of some bookmaker. As unobtrusively as possible ho stooped and picked up the package, the rich crncklc assuring him that it was the genuine article; with caution he began to untold the roll, when the notes vanished from his hand. With a gasp he looked round. About him were unconcerned racegoers mark-

ing their c*ards and chatting in apparent'oblivion of his presence. The blue sky above did not look nioro unconscious of the rape of the treasure thau his neighbours. He had seen no hand snatch' the notes; they simply were, and then were not. He still maintains that Goodwood is the happy hunting-ground of pirates of abnormal cunning and hardihood.