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Title: All round sport : with fish, fur, & feather ; adventures on the turf and the road, in the hunting and cricket fields, yachting courses, links, and curling ponds
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Dykes, T
Subjects: Horses Sports
Publisher: London : Fores, Piccadilly, W.
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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off as soon as the flag is down, and youll neversee me again, that you wont. Well, I followed the two rightround to the starter, when Sam wheeled sharp about, lookinglike business, the flag went down, and away I went with some-thing thundering hard behind me, but what it was I neverlooked over my shoulder to see. On I went, and passed the win-ning-post an easy winner, for when I finished there was nothingnear me. Well, I walked back to get my congratulations andweigh in, when my landlords brother and Jim Lawson startedswearing at me awful. *Why! havent I won ? said I. *Won!you infernal old fool! said Jim, youve sold us completely! How ? says I, firing up. * How! says he, youve ridden thecourse the wrong way round, you ass! Get back to the post asfast as you can. Well, back to the post I cantered, and therewas Sam and the other fellow grinning like mad. The flag waslowered and away we galloped on the right side of the course,that is exactly the opposite way you see I had just done, but
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■Xv^5«^;-v^^f- Well Won, but the Wrojig Way. 2^1 the mare was of no use, and Sams mount won easy. I could seethe whole game afterwards. Sam walked the wrong way up thecourse on purpose, and the starter, like the rider of the otherhorse, who had raced for a bit behind me, must have been in thegame. As to me, I was chaffed unmercifully, and to this daymy landlord believes I was drunk, whereas I had never toucheda drop. I never rode again and you now know how I neverwill ; but, if ever you have anything in a race, see that yourjockey knows the course, or he may win like me, the wrong wayround. n

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