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Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3505, 17 June 1920, Page 2

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} l'J.‘s lf{A'Rlt2 POSSIBI[_.I"I‘IES; l ‘ A CUNNING RUSE. : ___ E One of the best jokes worked on the istzll'tillg price shops in Sydney was ! that conceived by u battling trainer :1 i few years ago. i He knew his horse would be at :1 I short price on the course whenever he ‘wanted to back him, so he hit upon I the following scheme to obtain wlmt the considered a fair thing when he put his money on. I A HAI{D-WORKED £SO. A few weeks before th(‘ 1101*!‘ \\‘:is quite ready, he took £SO into one of the shops, and intimated that he wished to leave that sum in their possession, not for the purposes of a bet, but in case the stewarcls asked him :1 question on the course concerning the 1111l1Il:t of his horse. He would then }il‘.l\’C the ‘ book-mal~:er’s evidence :o iprove that he 'h:ld’backed the animal i in town. The starting; price 111ereli”a11t agreed. The horse ran, there was no trouble with the stewards, and the owner culled the ne.\:‘; day and got back his £SO note. i i\'l'lAßl}Y 0 READY. 1 The same thing happened about a? week later, when the horse ran at an— t ~otller meeting. “I «'lon’t want to do any business‘-’ said the owner; “I only want my £SO to be here in case rhet st.ewa.rds inquire into my llorse’si form.” .' Again there was no trouble, and the 1 £SO was collected on the day after the I race. ‘, In another t:'ortll.iglii' the owner cull-I ed a I.llil'd time, asking that the previous 21rr:1ngen1ent should be made. “What, not reatly yet‘.”’ asked the starting price bookmaker. “Not quite,” asid the owner. “I want to make an absolute certainty of i:. when I bet,” he added, “and I’li put you in it when it is time to back the horse.” ' THE PLOT. Later that day he met a trusted friend. “Here's £1100,” he_said to that individual. “Go and get it on my horse. By this time all the shops thing he’s dead again, so _vou’l;l be able to get it all on in town.” This he did, and the horse roniped home a winner to be returned at S to 1 starting price. I When the trainer went. to the starting—pr'lce joint to collect his £SO he‘ next morning, his explanation was a gem. , i “That ——— - jockey came home on me, and had all his - -——— punt- l ers on in town.