CASES AND RACES 115 



" O^Jjection " and an innocently injured ex- 

 pression coupled with explanations which defeat 

 any body of stewards. 



The bookmakers are up against a great deal, 

 but I think in the end they could show their bank 

 balances against the plotters of their financial 

 destruction. When Greek meets Greek sometimes 

 stray Romans come in and take the stakes. 



I remember seeing a race here in Limerick when 

 a certain mare was not wanted to win, and the 

 stable money was on another horse in the race. 

 He upset himself and calculations at the regula- 

 tion. The only other horse in the race was half a 

 mile behind and the mare was left alone. 



Before the fallen horse was remounted and 

 ridden on, the mare was then at the turn of the 

 straight. 



" Begonnes, he can only lose it now be running 

 out," I heard an agitated voice breathe close to 

 me. And he did it. The chestnut mare after a 

 three-mile chase swung from the straight into the 

 course, coming down on the fly fences in front of 

 the stand with her rider enacting the part of a 

 man who cannot possibly hold a fresh and fiery 

 steed. When he turned her, amid hoots and yells, 

 the other horse had crawled up to the turn for 

 home and was coming in. 



Back with the chestnut mare, the whip singing 

 off her ribs, she was swung into the straight, a 

 highly bewildered animal, and narrowly escaped 



