EXPENSIVE WAGERS.

Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 243, 12 October 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)

EXPENSIVE WAGERS.

The £10,000 yearling book which Sir John Willoughby made last summer on next year's Ep«om Derby (writes our london correspondent) begins to look the reverse of a promising investment. Amongst the youngetera against whom he has laid the conventional £10,000 to £100 are, it seems, Surefoot, Heauuie, Semolina and Riviera. He can scarcely, however, be in a worse position (John Corlett reminds us) than the maker-of the yearling book ou the Derby of 1866, who opened it by laying £10,000 to £100 each to Mr Sutton against Lord Lybn and Rustic. The noble lord in question got frightened ab his position early in the autumn of '65, and induced Mr Button.to lay him back 4,500 to 1,000 against the pair, which left him a loser of £5,000 if either horse won, and £800 if they lost. Bad buslneses as this seemed at the time, the amateur bookmaker who scored for. Lord Lyon started with odds of 6 to 5 on him, and won, and Rustic (sold to the Duke of Beaufort) saw as little as 5 to 2 and ran third.