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LAYERS LOST HEAVILY AT TORONTO. Ring at Woodbine Course Estimated to Have Dropped 00,000 During Meeting Just Ended. The idea that the simple backers of horses at Woodbine need to be protected against the raids made by the liookinakcr on the earnings of the aforesaid simple backers is only one of the many delusions fervently held hy those who know little of the turf or its workings." says the Toronto Globe in its review of the splendidly successful spring meeting just ended at Woodbine. "A well-informed and long-cx] erienced layer of odds, who operated at Woodbine, said to the Globe: I believe I am well within the mark when I say that the ring unit the Woodbine meeting 00,000 loser. Forty-nine per cent, of the public choices landed the money and you know what that means to the bookmakers. In all. at different times during the meeting, some 140 different people laid the odds. It wound up with only forty of them doing business ■ m the last day. and I know some of these who were financially distressed at the finish. " As for myself. I lost ,400 in the two weeks nnd on Saturday my book showed a winning on only one race of the seven. That was the last race of tlie meeting. I have no complaint, though, nor any growl to register. You had good horses and clean racing and when a mall gets an even break be lias no kick coming if be loses. Whin I back my experience and my judgment of the relative abilities of horses against the experience and judgment of another man. 1 am willing to abide by whatever result is fairly brought about." "The largest winning single bet of the meeting was probably that which a Toronto citizen put on Mrs. Livingstons Nod. on the tirst Friday of the meeting. As he stood undecided in front of a ». ix ik maker. Sam Frank, fingering a bill of unknown denomination. Frank said: Come on. be a sport and liel it all. What do you want to back? "Tlie citizen wanted to back Nod. and the bill was a fifty. Frank took it and gave him a ticket .ailing for ,800 to 0. tlie price being :; » to 1. When Nod rolled home the backer collected .550. and on Saturday night Frank ilischatgcd his crew ■■d returned to New York, having left ..mO alt" Igcther of good American money in Toronto."
