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ANSWERS TO QUERIES Communications without names and addresses 1 1I I will not be noticed nor answered Xo answers will be sent by mail and none by wire unless reply pre j jpayment payment is made at time of wiring query Bet ting papers will not be calculated B AA St Louis Mo Have no knowledge of the thepresent present location of former jockey AVilliam T AValsh AValshJ J R Cincinnati O Except as to twoyearolds twoyearoldsi i the list has not been furnished for publication as jyot jyotAV asjyot AV F G Nashville Tenn Spendthrift was a star racer and was a chestnut horse by Australian Aerolite by Lexington LexingtonEd Ed P Middletown 0 A bookmaker makes his opening prices arbitrarily but based on the public 1 form of the horses and always giving himsHt a safe j percentage Thus if his selected favorite is at i even money that counts 50 In percentage second i choice 31 would be 25 third choice tS1 would be 14 fourth choice 10 to 1 would be 0 fifth choice 20 to 1 These together would count up 102 so then he would have a two per cent book and with the fractions and a few more horses at longer prices he would make his opening book any ¬ where from 10 per cent lo 20 or more per cent In his favor Of course these prices would change with the influx of money but a safe percentage would bo maintained
