Neville's daughter, who had been away in San Francisco, returned and the two met on a Friday - nothing unusual came up in the conversation. The next morning, the Saturday of the actual Belmont Stakes, he told her how the race would finish before it was run, based on a vision he says he had seen while coming to waking consciousness the previous Thursday morning. She protested that he should 'stop' the dream, but the race finished exactly as he had described.