I’m sure we all dream of winners - but none of us has anything on Lord Kilbracken or young Paul
Dreams about racehorses have a mixed record, writes David Ashforth
I had been hoping to have a dream featuring the winner of the 2,000 Guineas but instead had one in which I met a lady who had invented supermarket trolleys. I’d just arranged to interview her about it when I woke up.
Maybe it was for the best. In 1887 Michael Lyons dreamed that Tranter would win the Melbourne Cup. Lyons lived in Tasmania, where The Tasmanian newspaper described Tranter as “one of the noblest specimens of a thoroughbred that ever looked through a bridle”.
The dream was so persuasive that Lyons sold his house and put it on Tranter, who started at 20-1 and came nowhere. Houseless, Lyons was more successful on the breeding front, fathering Joseph Lyons, Australia’s prime minister from 1932 to 1939.
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