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ANSWERS TO QUERIES. W. IT. B.. I.atonia. Ky. At Estonia July 2, 1910. G. W. W.. Hamilton. Out. No horse of the nam" specified is racing. M. T., Detroit. Mich. Notwithstanding his rule the bookmaker should make an exception In this case and pay. F. It. 01, Great Falls. Mont. If at the track there is no difficulty in doing so. fin Ian. St. Louis, Mo. The first dollar did lose and you received the right payment. A. F... Toronto. Ont. "Equivalent booking odds" simply converts the actual mutuel prices paid into bookmaklng terms. In case of dead heats nothing can be done except to show what the split prices paid at the track are when rendered into bookmak-ing terms, for convenience. Your conclusions are all wrong. J. O. N. Nashville. Tenn. 1 The race was a stake race in which Ilildreth had Fitz Herbert. King lames, Bestigouche. Firestone, Shannon. Royal Meteor. Novelty. Zeus. Eddie Dugan and Rose Queen engaged. Under the rules of racing he had the right ui to a prescribed period before the race to :mi1 or withdraw any or all of them. A backer of the "Ilildreth entry, with no horses named, had his bet represented by whatever Hildreth started, and was entitled to have it counted a winner for him, even in a p. p. combination. 2 The second case was also a stake race and subject to the same contingencies. You had no right to declare a walkover In the face of the fact that it was a race at the track and a good one.
