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By Sunder — Polkerris, winner of the King Qeorge Stakes 



EECORDS AND EEMINISCENCES 



OF 



GOODWOOD AND THE DUKES OF RICHMOND. 



A Curious Goodwood Incident. 



Accidents happen even in the best regulated race- 

 meetings, says a correspondent of the Morning Post, 

 and one of the most curious incidents in Turf annals 

 occurred at Goodwood a century ago. The judge was 

 so intent on watching the struggle between the two 

 leading horses, racing neck and neck for home, that 

 he quite failed to see another slipping ahead on the 

 other side of the track. It shot past the winning-post 

 well in front of the other two, but the judge sent up 

 the number of the second horse as winner. So it came 

 to gass that the Duke of Richmond's Dandyette was 

 unplaced in a race she won by three lengths ! The 

 Duke refused to appeal, remarking calmly to the 

 repentant judge : "I have always heard that justice 

 , is blind; now I know it ! " 



