268 CHASING AND RACING 



description of the race, and how Cabin Boy, whose 

 colours she described correctly (though she was not 

 acquainted with them), won comfortably. This vision 

 was repeated seriatim in the issue. 



The fact may not be as astonishing as at first 

 thoughts it might appear, and may have been the result 

 of a telepathy which enabled her to voice my own 

 figuring of what was likely to happen. 



The next case is rather more mysterious. I had 

 gone to Goodwood in 1893 for the purpose of backing 

 a certain animal which I fancied at the weights; whilst 

 my friend had remained in London. My selection 

 was not even placed. A passer-by in the paddock 

 informed me that there was a telegram for me on the 

 board. When I retrieved it, it read : 



" Medora is certain to win.'* 



It was from my hypnotic subject, and the official 

 time of dispatch was one and a half hours before that 

 set down for the race to be run ! 



When we met again I questioned her as to the 

 why and wherefore of her wire. She told me that on 

 the day of the Stewards' Cup she had fallen asleep in 

 her boudoir and had seen that race as in a dream, quite 

 clearly and distinctly. A filly with a jockey in all scarlet 

 had won, and on consulting the list of probable runners, 

 as set forth in The Sportsman^ she found it was Medora 

 (whose name, so she emphatically informed me, she 

 had never previously heard), whereupon she imme- 

 diately wired to me as quoted. 



