A NOTABLE BOOKMAKER.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1497, 3 November 1885, Page 4

A NOTABLE BOOKMAKER.

Mr Robert Howett, the well-known bookmaker.- and owner of •racehbrses^ is about to pay ja" ' wait" to -Australia and New Zealand, and sails almost immediately., Mr Howett's career Jias (been most remarkable. He was qrjgirially a designer m the l^bttittghain lace trade,, th«t< isj one of the rankarid file who draW the patterns which render 1 lace-so 'beauti-;' iful. ., -Entering the> service of 'Mr Stdkes;" a ; celebrated, penciller • of twenty < years ago, m .hw clerk, he quickly; worked his; Way up into the very front, rank of be>tih'g men, won heaps of money,, bought an estate at Wobdbbrbugji, N^otits.', purchased and' bred ; racehorses, with which' hehas wohunany important events. In fact, Mr Howetthas, m a financial sense, been one ot the most fortunate men. on the turf. He possesses a wonderful faculty for betting on horses m running. Long r before an animal's, winning chance ,is apparent to ordmary eyes or fieldglasses, he sees it, and very' s.eldorri jn ! deed is his judgment at fault ■ " Bob" ! How,ett's- familiar figure, perched perit ously on the ; tipp of the V ring railings, and,,^bawling out, " The favqqrite's beat.|. 100' to 1 agih'thelfay'rite !" \nllbe much, missed at the autumn race meetings. t ■'.