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ANSWERS TO QUERIES. Communications without names and addresses of senders will not be answered or noticed. J. W. K.. Hawthorne, 111. Make your statement Of the case clearetand sign your name in full. Jacob G.. Chicago. The parlay won on Jacobite and was void on Westbury. it should be paid on Jacobite place. John L., Chicago. The wager on Platoon was void, because of the stipulation that it was only to go "if Chief Desmond is beaten." Cling. J. King, Cincinnati, O. You were asked to name the liorses. Blind queries are not answered. It does not matter how much is involved. W. II. S., Danville, 111. Jacob, by Uncommon La Josephine has started in twenty-one races, won none, was second twice, third once and unplaced eighteen times. H. C. R:, Chicago. If a man wagers on a single horse of a coupled entry, his bet Is decided by the running of that horse, but if it Is scratched he has a .draw, whether the other horse loses or wins. U. O. Strickland. St. Louis. Mo. You ask for too much information for curiositys sake. When such information turns up in the work of news gathering, it -will he printed. There are no such records that are definitely known. A. E. SL, St. Louis, Mo. It was Suzanne, a twOyear-old filly by Bitter Root Caress, belonging .to J. S. Bratton, that ran at the last meeting held at Delmar. She won there July 20. 1005. The Susannah that was shot at Seattle this summer was a different horse, being a. three-year-old filly by Fillgrane Caroona, and consequently only a yearling at the time of the last Delmar meeting. Goldberg. Toronto. Ont. Ante-post betting Is play or -pay, unless some stipulation to the contrary is imade., Had B. made his bet without conditions he iwould liave been .entitled to payment, even If CfcarlesSEdward alone had started. But having r , ..fttpuUfwiJ or a trt or po bet, he robbed, he wager ::W 7 of the play or pay rule attaching to. ante-post betting, and made it a case of ordinary betting. His wager is a draw because there was no place betting at the track. As to the rule you inquire about, it. rcajls: "In all bets there must be a possibility to win when the bet is made. You cannot win when you cannot lose."
