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ANYTHING TO BEST THE BOOKMAKERS The following elipp elipplislied lislied South African that so long as the bookmakers are beaten some men are not particular as to the means adopted At one meeting some owners wanted to get their own back from the bookies On the course were old and new stands if they could be called by any name so flattering In one race a pony called well West African was favorite and its colors were all blue on the program By an arrangement with the stewards a change of colors was made the result being that another pony carried all blue This change of colors was posted up on the old stand which no one ever went near Of course all blue was well out of it and some interesting betting took place while the running was in progress There wis much angry outcry on the part of the bookies who had laid any odds against West African in the running but they had to pay At a meeting near Sydney only recently a mistake in the colors given in the race book was costly to some backers notwithstanding a correction was conspicuously posted on the iourse Many people took no heed of the alteration and when they saw the horse referred to well in front at the turn con ¬ fused it with another whose colors were correctly given in the book and duly supported the wrong one Their disgust can be imagined when they later discovered that the winner was not the horse they thought they were backing Sydney Referee
