SPORTING NOTES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 27, 31 December 1883, Page 2

SPORTING NOTES.

v Phaeton " understands that several of the Southern " books " intend bidrding good-bye to New Zealand, and {aking ;ip tlieii' residence m Sydney and Melbourne, after the conclusion of the New Zealand racing season, on account of the opposition they are receiving from their mechanical friend — the totalizator. A betting transaction of a somewhat unusual character (says an English paper) has interested sporting circles m Stroud during the past few days. A well-known bookmaker m the district offered to bet five shillings on a' certain jockey, winning a race last week, and

undertook to double the stake each race. The jock bad 14 mounts on the first two days and lost every one of them I The bold bookmaker by that time thought it was quite time tocry peccavi, •for m this very simple way lie lost— £4095 15s ! Had the game been continued for seven more races, and the jock still been unlucky, the latter would bave run up a debt amounting to more than a million sterling. " Senex, " m the Uhrisrchurch Press, ..remgrks qUtaLAfi^ J^mfc~4md small, there ac up wards of 40 race meetings <m Njew !. Zealand during the -VLeei^coui_maa^n^witJu3x)xijag-Day and ending the first day of the new year.