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ANSWERS TO QUERIES Communications without, names and addresses will not be noticed nor answered. No answers will be sent by mail and none by wire unless reply prepayment is made at time of wiring query. Betting papers will not be calculated. G. K., Paris, Ky. The transaction, ended in a draw, the two horses being scratched from the race in which they were backed. David F., Cincinnati, O. Do not know present location of jockey Frank Murphy. He rode at Toledo last week and may be at Latonia. E. L. McC, Dayton, O. No replies by telegraph. Layers do not pay on field horses unless they run to the places for which they are backed. H. G. W., Chicago, 111. A wager on Mira-belle in race 66478 was on the Belmont entry with Mirabelle to go, and won because her stablemate won. J. D. S., Cincinnati, O. Jamaica statistics, published in last Saturdays paper. 2 "Start" in the case inquired about means the position in which the horse gets away from the barrier, first, third, sixth, or as the case may have been. J. P. T. and R. L. D., Chicago, 111. The circumstances of the race would govern. Presumably a wager, if made, would have been on the J. S. Cosden entry. In this case Knighthood having been sold, that entry was Huckleberry Finn. An entry is one or more horses. Had Huckleberry Finn won backers of the entry would have won. Because of his failure they lost.
