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ANSWERS TO QUERIES Communications without names and addresses I will not be noticed nor answered. No answers will j be sent by mailnnd none by wire unless reply pre- payment is made at time of wiring query. Bet- 1 ting papers will not be calculated. j S. R. W.; Chicago, 111. See reply to R. H. B. W. F., Chicago, HI. It was a losing transaction. J. W. C, Urbana, O, Initials are not sufficient. A. C. J., Cincinnati, O. Colin never started in a race in England. "Bill," St. Louis, Mo. A place bet on a horse against which there turns out to be no place price is a draw. A. E. R., Indianapolis, Ind. Your query was answered in a correction of prices published September 15. Sea Sinner closed at 1S-3, 8-5 and 4-5. J, B. H., Minneapolis, Minn. It was Paul Jones that was entered and not Blazes, but by a mistake Blazes was sent out from the track. The only effect was that wagers on Blazes would have been draws. C. ON., Chicago, 111. There was no Ross entry in the race inquired about. Every Ross horse in the race was leased for that race to another owner and notice to that effect was printed over the entries. , Jno. F., Covington, Ky. Had Step Lightly not been scratched from race 504GG, a parlay on her and Exterminator would have won, but with her scratched the parlay became a single wager on Exterminator. R. H. B., Cincinnati, O., and others. Generally, the present practice is that when a single horse of a coupled entry is backed .the wager is on the entry, with the named horse to go or no bet. Thus, a wager on Careful in the Futurity won because her stablemate won, but if she had not started it would have been a draw;
