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letter. The same post brought letters from 

 five other members of our club asking me if 

 I would care to part with my chance for a 

 considerable consideration indeed, one of 

 them offered me a pony (^25) for my ticket 

 but I was not to be tempted. The very 

 name of the filly seemed to me to bear a 

 mystic meaning and predict success. Was 

 not this Coronation year, and this would be 

 the Coronation Derby ; was it not therefore 

 only natural and fitting that "Sceptre" should 

 win, and would win ? I became superstitious 

 to a degree, and regarded everything that 

 happened as a favourable omen, and I felt 

 absolutely convinced that at last my luck had 

 turned, and Dame Fortune had softened 

 towards me by bestowing upon me this 

 "dead cert." 



No consideration whatever should induce 

 or tempt me to dispose of my ticket either 

 in whole or part. My motto was : " The 



