Meanwhile Jack Barham had fallen into precisely the same error. Seeing that Bonanza was the only horse of Percival’s entered far that day, he naturally came to the conclusion that this was the good thing. Like a good many others he rarely troubled to read the conditions of a race, or he.would have seen that it was simply a welter handicap, with no selling clause attached. Determined if possible to get the cream of the market, he was on the alert the moment the numbers were hoisted. A hot favourite was soon found, but it was not Bonanza ; indeed, Jack never hoard the horse’s name mentioned except when included among a lot of three or four against whom the layers vainly preferred 100 to 8.
«> This doesn’t look a bit like a warm order,” he thought. “ Perhaps it’s an S.P. job, How ever. I suppose I murt back it, so here goes, and he took 300 to 24.
