268 HEROES AND HEROINES OF 



The reasons for this diabolical outraoe were 

 not far to seek. Zoedone, who had been pounced 

 upon by the public as the probable winner, the 

 moment the weights were out, had been coupled 

 with Bendigo in many large double event 

 bets for the Lincoln Handicap and Grand 

 National. 



As we all know, Bendigo won the former race, 

 and the layers of odds being left in a very 

 unpleasant position in consequence, and unwilling to 

 take any risks, like the cowardly brutes they were, 

 adopted the only course left open to them, with 

 what success we have just recorded. 



It is not often that one hears of the same roof-tree 

 sheltering the owners of the respective favourites 

 for the Lincoln Handicap and Grand National at 

 one and the same time, but it happened so in this 

 instance, Mr. Hed worth Barclay, owner of Bendigo, 

 and Count Charles Kinskv sharing: the same 

 hunting box. 



Alluding to the subject in his own article in the 

 Sporting Times of the following day, Mr. John 

 Corlett thus forcibly expressed himself:^ 



" Thougfh the case of Zoedone is merelv one of 

 suspicion, there is much reason to fear that that 

 suspicion is well founded. The magnificent 



