Over dinner he read the racing forecasts for the Saratoga meeting, from which he noted that the joint favourites for The Perpetuities Stakes were Mr C. V. Whitney's Come Again and Mr William Woodward Jnr's Pray Action.

晚餐时， 他阅读了萨拉托加会议的赛马预测，从中他注意到永久赌注的共同最爱是 C. V. Whitney 先生的 Come Again 和 William Woodward Jnr 先生的 Pray Action。