On the first of the present month over the Rowley Mile at headquarters, Sir Abe Bailey's Dan Bulger delighted his backers who had made him favourite at 7 to 2 in a field of ten by winning the Clare Handicap. This Was his first win since he hed deadbeated with Midstream for the Criterion Stakes and it made his supporters think of his merits as a possible Cambridgeshire Winner. He has fulftied those expectations at the satisfactory price of 7 to 1 and as that race Is caught up in the worldwide operations of the Irish Sweepstake, a good deal of information, is being flashed by the news agencies: in the light of Dan Bulger's success. It Is ungracious to be sceptical but the effort to arouse sympathy for the plight of distressed bookmakers rust be tenderly treated. Bookmakers always have the work-house prospect, according to the best brought up chroniclers but somehow there is an Impression abroad that the book is eminently adaptable to Its makers' "economic plight. If that work-house really loomed horribly large, Dan Bulger's price would hardly have been so generously cal: culated. However it is always good to find J Jndly souls and a survival belief in fairy tales. And what more fitting object of compassion can there be than the figure of the bookmaker transported from _his palace in Brinton to some public hotel main= tained by the ratepayers free of cost to its residents? The harmless delusion gives such pleasant hopes to the ever optimistic punter.
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