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• — ANSWERS TO QUERIES s e Communications without name* 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. | — — — $ L.. O. C, New Albany, Ind. — There are no added starters in purse races. They crop up now and then in eastern stake races. In the instance named by you the horse you backed won for you. provided the bet was at a price laid and accepted at the time. If that was not the case and your bet was at track odds, whatever they might bf your bet would be governed by the circumstances of the race and would lose, just as it would lose at the track. C. H. C, Cleveland — Apparently it was a winning transaction on the "if coming" feature. C. A. McC. Terre Haute. Ind.— Race King ran a dead heat with Sysonby in the Metropolitan Handicap of 1905. He, a four-year-old, had up ninety-seven pounds to 107 on Sysonby, then a three-year-old. Have no data at hand concerning nationality of FTields. K. K. I., Chicago — When one backs a riders mount the horse ridden must race to the place for which it was backed. C. B. J., Akron, Ohio. — "Cioldie" Johnson is a white boy and presumably an American. It. C. O., Chicago — A wager on To-Morrow in the third race at Tijuana April 2 lost. K. B., Winnipeg, Manitoba. — The horse was Florida iold which ran second to Birley M. C. in the fifth ran on March 29.
