"UNCANNY INFORMATION"
Bookmakers at Sydney trotting meetings are particularly well informed about horses that are to be backed by connections, says the Sydney "Referee." It seems uncanny to hear a short price quoted about a horse that has shown little encouraging form in public for many months. The commissioners often accept this short price, thus proving the information given to the bookmaker to be reliable. How they get to know the intentions of owners is a puzzle, but punters of experience always make a note of > horses that bookmakers treat with such sudden and obvious respect, and cease to wonder how the layers of the odds found out. Another difficulty that owners have to face in Sydney is the way bookmakers' runners • tear, round the betting ring after seeing a reliable bet on a horse, thus causing the general quotation to shrink to an unattractive figure. Hace clubs know of this evil and they are always assuring owners and-others that they are suppressing it, but any ordinary observer can see it flourishing at any Sydney trotting or horse meeting,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 68, 17 September 1936, Page 13
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179"UNCANNY INFORMATION" Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 68, 17 September 1936, Page 13
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