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NZ Truth, Issue 1205, 3 January 1929, Page 9

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Punter Gets In For Cut

It is not often these days that; | straight-out Wagers are made days before a meeting. ■ WHEN the Gaming Act came into y-': force the big bookmakers-' kept going along, and they Avere/proriared to do business! be it big or small. But gradually they ■ chopped down, and noAv has 7arrived the stage Avh'.-ie it is most difficult to get a goodly sum "set." , , " • ; But one instance was struck the other day. It was, a week before the Christmas racing opened. ■•.■>■•■' A merchant Avas m a certain town^ and, running intb anowner, the talk naturally drifted to the owner's horse. Having it m his mind as a gppd thing, the owner let himself go along, and m the end' the J . bookmaker '. offered ' to wager on ; the race.';' b The owner /was willing, arid m the end he accepted a wager of five hundred to live for a win. ' ,' 7 > Not tAventy people knew of this Avager on the course, yet the horse was made a good favorite. Of ceurse, there is enly one /-. completion to the tale. The horse failed to do his bit. He found the Aveight too riiuch over the last furlong an d Qnished out of the dividend payers. Bang went a hundred.