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ANSWERS TO QUERIES L E II Rockford 111 One backing the Mc ¬ Lean entry had a draw when no McLean horses started Properly the coupled entry was the Mc ¬ Lean and Folly Farm Stable entry Kathleen be ¬ longing to the Folly Farm Stable StableH H Z Chicago 111 A statement that a horse has gone amiss and had to be turned out means either that it has fallen sick or become lame thus requiring retirement from racing for treatment Hopelessly amiss means that it has been so crip ¬ pled that it can race no more moreP P OM Windsor Ont A place parlay of Oc ¬ tober 10 on Whimsy Torchbearer Irish Maid and Bellringer would have won had Whimsy and Torch bearer ran first and second in the race in which it happened both started The calculation would have been on Whimsy at 2 to 5 Torchbearer 7 to 10 and Bellringer 11 to 10 Irish Maid having been scratched scratchedR R T Hamilton O Local custom governs the matter This newspaper has advanced the opinion that when u field horse wins or runs to a place all the other field horses in the race win accordingly I t in many localities layers will only pay on such field horses as runs to the place for which they have teen backed Had White Slipper won the field tickets would have paid the same as they did when Saints Bridge W9ii W9iiF F W New Orleans La It is no infrequent thing that a backer backs several horses to win the same race If one of them does win lie is paid on that one and loses on the other or others In the case of The Pqrterbeing backed wiUiout naming the race on the day he was entered in three races the wager would attach to him In whichever of the three he started in Having backed Omar Khayyam tij win the race In which The Porter actually did start bpueht about a situation in which the backer had two horses running for him In the result he won on The Porter arid lost on Omar Khayyam
