JOCKEYS ON BETTING.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2161, 15 May 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

JOCKEYS ON BETTING.

11 It's a bad game betting," was Archer's comment to me one day, when we were talking in the ring. "You're bound to lose money if you bet much," is Tom Cannon's constant remark. *• Taking one year with another, I do not more than just about hold my own," says John Osborne. "The bookmaker will have the belt of you," is George Fordham's experience. "There are no certainties in racing," says Wood. Yet we find the rank of the advertising tipsters swelling daily ; their invitations to the public to send five shillings and be put on the road to making wealth beyond the dreams of avarice fill columns of the sporting papers. How is it that the advertising tipster, who probably lives in a publichouse and rarely sees a horse, can unerringly find winners, when men like Fordham, Cannon, Archer, Wood, and Osborne, who live among hors«s, who— some of them — own many horses, who pass their time when they are not riding races in riding trials and gallops, who know what is going on in the world, and are always studying form with the eyes of experts, are often wrong in their judgment, and cannot by any means make sure of finding winners ? Docs this reflection never occur to the simple gulls who send their shillings to the tipsters?