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RACING GOSSIP The news assures us that a bookmaker in New York laid 250 to 5 against Berclairs chances for the Brooklyn Handicap and went to penance when he learned from the records that the colt had run the handicap distance on a rather deep track in 2 06 If such a bookmaker ex ¬ ists he should get his head fixed or hell keep on losing losingBerclair Berclair isnt in the Brooklyn jand never ran 14 miles in 20554 The colt ibnt up to such a performance on any kind of a track much less a rather deep one The cold figures of racing show Berclair to be the winner of three races last season April 9 Tennessee Derby Mem ¬ phis 109 pounds 1 miles time 155 October 10 Sherlock Stakes Latonia 101 pounds 1 116 miles time 149 and November 10 handicap Latonia 101 pounds 1 mile and 70 yards time 1 46 Berclairs a fair colt is partial to a soft track but he cannot do 20654 for 134 miles even with his Suburban 93 pounds impost The chances are that the chronicler is at fault and the bookmaker a myth As usual the fable came from New York Theres a fable machine there It has a telegraphic attachment
