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ANSWERS TO QUERIES. FCommuniraf ions without names and addresses of senders will not be answered or noticed; nor will any answers he sent by mail. J. W. C. Chicago. You should receive 0. .Tames O.. South Chicago. You won even money. G. A. B., Chicago. Plantlands average was 11 to 1. John I. and others. Chicago. In a dead heat the money bet is added together and divided equally between the layer and the backer. J. J. F.. Chicago. When one backs a horse to show the bet is that the horse will run third or better and if it runs first, second or third, the bet wins. Fred C. Chicago. On the basis of the uiutuel betting. Gypsy King paid sixty cents to each dollar bet on him and Hyperion II. twenty-six cents to the dollar. A. M., Chicago. The bet on Royal Onyx was a draw. A bet on a horse in a race from which he is scratched does not follow him to another to which he may be added. J. J. C. Chicago. A bet in a handbook on a horse that is included in a inuluel field does not win unless the horse runs to the place for which it is backed. Your horse ran unplaced and the bet lost. Benny 1.. Vhicago. Your place and show bet on flic Dunlop entry May IS. was a draw. Takahira was tile entry after Pearl Point was scratched aud there was no place or show price against him. F. C. P.. Toronto. Out. In such cases this newspaper always decides it a losing bet. but gives a draw if your horse has been scratched, no matter where the stahleniate finishes. Some bookmakers pay such bets, but do not allow the draw. J. O. P.. Toronto, Ont. 1 The cases were not similar; one horse was backed singly in hookmaking place or show and there was no separate place or show price against him. The other was one of a field in luutuel betting and any horse in a field that is placed earns payment as it would in hookmaking, but unplaced horses in the uiutuel lie.d win nothing. 2| No. You had your option of backing Ihe entry and elected to back a single horse instead. 3 Certainly. 4 Meaning of your query uot clear.
