A writer m a popular English paper asks "Is No. 13 an unlucky number?" Mi. R. Sievers and others were watch ing the race for the One Thousand Guineas from a hired conveyance. Sceptre's number on the card was 13, and almost at the same' moment that No. 13 went up on the board as the win ner, the party discovered that the plate number of the vehicle they were sit ting in was also No. 13. The last has probabty been seen of San Fran as a racehorse, for he is on offer for sale. He won £63"9 in stakes, and was the largest winner of prize money, with the exception of The Grafter, of all the horses sired bv Gozo. San Fran won a Sydney Cup the Metropolitan, and a Randwick Plate, but, perhaps, his best performance of all was running second, with 9st 71b, in the Melbourne Cup w on bv Revenue. A simple'-miaded litigant, suing for the- return of his deposit money on a readied-up horse, told a Melbourne bench lately that ' he thought he could trust defendant as he w as a member of the Salvation Army " "The religion that can induce a man to co straight in a deal in horseflesh has not. vet been invented," was the response from the bench. A peculiar accident occuired at the Wallsend races recently After start nis; for the Town Plate the Loohiel colt Beware caught Boyle the rider of Abe, with has teeth bv the leg, drawing him out of the saddle and carivmg him five or six yards. The hoise then turned a somersault, and its rider (Cnmp) w asi shaken, but not otherwise hurt. Boyle two wounds in the leg abo^ o the knee.
baturday, August 2, 1902.
THE FREE LANGtz.
