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Findon rival. As they walked up to meet their respective 

 horses, Goater said, " I stood to win more money on mine 

 to-day than I ever stood before," thus fulfilling Mr Day's 

 dream to the very letter. 



The famous mare Caller Ou, winner of the St Leger of 

 1 86 1, was the heroine of an equally vivid and prophetic 

 dream. Caller Ou had been performing very moderately 

 during the summer of her three-year-old career, and the 

 odds of lOO to I offered against her seemed to foreshadow 

 her absence from the post. A gentleman with whom Mr 

 I'Anson was slightly acquainted — a keen sportsman and 

 courser — Mr Peat, dreamed that Caller Ou won the St Leger, 

 and like a true Yorkshireman backed her for that event. 

 On being told by his friends that she was not likely to run, 

 he wrote very respectfully to Mr I'Anson, informing him of 

 his dream and of his having backed the mare, and offered, 

 in case the owner did not think of running her, to pay the 

 stake and all other expenses if he would allow her to go to 

 Doncaster and take her chance. Mr I'Anson, on considering 

 the matter, desired his daughter, who was then, as always, 

 his trusty counsellor and amanuensis, to reply in courteous 

 terms to Mr Peat's letter, thanking him for his handsome 

 offer, and informing him that Caller Ou should run and 

 take her chance in the St Leger, but that he would himself 

 pay all expenses. The result, as is well known, gained 

 Caller Ou the brightest gem in her chaplet of fame, and 

 won Mr Peat his money. 



Mr Alexander Young, the brewer, of Richmond, York- 

 shire, dreamt on the eve of the Chester Cup that he was 

 standing in the ring after the race and saw No. 21 hoisted 

 as the winning number. This dream induced him to go to 

 Chester Races, and on the course he met his friend Mr John 

 Jackson, the then leviathan of the betting ring, who inquired 

 what had brought him there. Mr Young laughingly 

 replied that he had come on a fool's errand to back 

 No. 21 on the card, as he had dreamt it had won. The 

 race cards were just coming out, and Jackson said, 

 " We'll buy one, and see what it is." To their surprise, 

 they found that No. 21 was Jackson's own horse, Tim 

 Whiffler ; and on being assured by the owner that the horse 



