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ANSWERS TO QUERIES. Communications without names and addresses j will not be noticed nor answered. No answers will I be sent by mail and none by wire unless reply pre-1 payment is made at time of wiring query. M. McC, Kansas City, Mo. The Saratoga track was fast Monday, August 0. F. P. J., Chicago, 111.- A place parlay on Buck Shot and Starwort, August 7, lost. Parlays are decided by the running of the horses named. F. A. M., Niles, Mich. Lady Rotha having been scratched August 6, the whole transaction ended in a draw, the stipulation "if she wins" having that effect. B. C. W., Petersburg, III. Do Tiot know where R. B. Allen went to from Grand Rapids, but surmise the stable may have gone west for the Cheyenne and Reno meetings. R. J. A., New Orleans. La. Voter never raced over a Chicago track. There was no racing in fhicago when he was a two and three-year-old and Ms racing was confined to the eastern tracks. C. S. W.. Jr. Pine Bluff. Ark. There was abundance of place betting on Hodge in race 34803; no place price was quoted because he did not run first or second. Mutuel place prices are not furnished on horses which do not finish first or second. R. B., Chicago. 111. A stipulated wager on Cheer Leader August 2, "if Azalea did not win," attached to Cheer Leader as soon as Azalea was scratched, and it won. Azalea did not win. Her scratching had the same effect as if she had ran and been beaten. J. P. B., Chicago, 111. At Saratoga, August S. G. D. Widener, Jr. had entries in two races and .1. E. Widener entries in one. If a person had made a parlay, one component of which was "Widener entry." not naming the race, or which of the two Wideners was meant, the layer would be justified in holding that it attached to the first race in Which either of the Wideners had a starter.
