Answers to Queries, Daily Racing Form, 1908-02-02


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= - ANSWERS TO 0UERIE8, [Communications without names and addresses of senders will not be answered or noticed; nor will any answers be sent by mail ] A. P. J., St. Louis, Mo. Zelinas prices were correctly ,%r printed and your informant was mistaken en or a falsifier. J. H. K., Chicago. The matter wonld require re too much time to compile. All charts of New York rk racing are contained in the Annual Form Book pub ...,. lished at this office. Jones, Toronto, Ont. The backer is not entitled |e l to a second winning bet on Raleigh. The "coming", money from scratches was exhausted by Meada a and Pedro before the Raleigh race came on. McM., Chicago. The vagaries of betting are not ,t always to lie acconnted for, but as a general rule the " • losing odds represent the pressure of the money at taken in and efforts to round ont the book by ,y lolling money in on comparatively unbacked horses. R There never is any such uniformity as you suggest tt in prices and the race you cite is not out of line ,c in any respect. It simply gives the prices offered , at post time. Frank J. L., Cincinnati, O. There is no relation ,„ between the two cases. Sea Salt was entered in one purse race and no other. The backer, in making M a parlay, carelessly wrote a wrong number for c.r Sea Salts race. Had the horse won he would ,,. have expected payment and undoubtedly have received ?" it. Banposal was scratched from a purse We ... race and added to a stake race, in which he had long been entered. The moment he was scratched 1 from the purse race bets on him for that race ,.0 became draws. —


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