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HOW DICKENS PICKED THREE WINNERS. Charles Dickens happened to be in Doncaster one Leger day. The story of his "spotting three winners" on that occasion is told iu Forsters life of the great novelist : "He bought the card, facetiously wrote down three names as the winners of the three chief races never in his life having heard or thought of any of the horses, except tliat the winner of the Derby, which proved to be nowhere, had been mentioned to him. In a letter to his biographer be says: " If you cau believe it. without your hair standing on "end, those three races were won one after another by those three horses. " Dickens truly described this as a "wonderful paralyzing coincidence."
