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WEBB TAKES ISSUE WITH FALK. Bditor Daily Racing Form, Chicago, 111. Dear Sir Having read the urttclc in last Fridavs Form on Betting in England, I should like to point out to you and your readers several mistakes in regard to same. First, betting in Tattersalls is not all done on the credit system, by a long way. Second, the writer points out that he recalls a horse that was entered for the Lincoln Handicap, a race three years away. Now. I flatly- contradict this, as the entries for the said race do not close till Januarv and the race is run in March of the same year on the Tuesday before the Grand National. I guess the writer must have got mixed up with regard to the classic races which consist of the Two Thousand and One Thousand Guineas, Derby and St. Leger, entries for which do close two and a half years before the race. Another thing, it is no uncommon tiling to see horses quoted at two or three hundred to one in ante-post betting. I may mention I have been racing in England, France and South Africa for the last fourteen years and have been secretary of different clubs in South Africa, to which I am now returning, and never in my life did I hear or see any bookmaker helping another one by giving him 4 to 1 when the horse named was going to the post at even money. George B. Webb.
