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NOTES OF THE TURF. Horbst, St. Louis, Mo. The difficulties attending gathering quotations of odds at Washington Park oh an American Derby day are almost insuperable. Investigation since shows too, for a brief space, some bookmakers laid 30 to 1 Evas Darling, but to no great amount. At the close of betting some bookmakers report they were laying 20, 7 and 3, the majority were laying much lower prices. J. O., Joliet, Hi. The race was at a mile and a sixteenth instead of a mile and a half as stated by a clerical error, but the error does not invalidate bets made on the race. Had your selection won you wouljl have been paid. H. W., Toronto. Possession is registered by that name. She was in correctly programmed as Procession on New York tracks. A. B. E., St. Louis, Mo. The correction stands. Your action in the matter was sportsmanlike and to be commended. Boyle, Chicago. Salvator won the Realization Stakes of 1889, with Tenny second and Long Dance third. The Picket, Chicago. At Oakland, March 25, Fossil was "out" and Horton 2 to 5 to show. v L. A. T., Chicago. As you state your bets they were all winners. F. O. R., Chicago. Bernays was 2 to 5 to show in the Derby Trial.
