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, ANSWERS TO QUERIES G. A. G., Chicago, 111. If such a parlay as you describe had been made Saturday, August 25, it would certainly have lost. M. B., Chicago, III. First Rays finished third in race 35100 and paid 190 to 100 to show. The show line should have read so. S. W. S., New Orleans, La. In mutuel betting when you see place prices against the first and second horses, there is always a place price against all the other starters. There is no "out" in the mutuels. The Seagram entry was given abundant backing for place in race 34,481. R. W., Louisville, Ky. A horse that wins by eight lengths at three-quarters in 1:14, would almost certainly be easing up at the finish and be able to run in faster time if pressed to its limit of speed. It is not capable of exact definition, but it might require 1:13 to beat it. At the conventional, but incorrect allowance of ten feet to a length, the eight lengths difference would be covered in slightly less than one and one-half seconds. It. It., Cincinnati, O. There is nothing new or unusual in the matter. In the eastern racing, added starters win stake races now and then every year. The horse lias been duly entered before the closing of entries long before the time of the race and, up to an appointed time, its owner can elect to start it at his pleasure. In such cases as that of Fizer, an added stdrter counts for nothing, except as a factor in the odds, unless the layer operates under the rule that added starters run for him.
