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COLOSSAL CHEEK.

Some of the English sporting .newspapers state that a curious jpoint recently arose over the Surrey Selling Hurdle Handicap, at Lingfield, m England, the board m the paddock giving number 6 as a runner, this being Decider, and many people hastened into , the ring, and backed the horse, accepting such odds as 6 to 4 and 7 to 4. The number board on the course, however, contained no No. 6, but No. 9, that of Gbrgias, and it was found that the man m charge of the paddock board had accidentally inverted tha 9, so that it became -.. Decided, as a matter of fact, had never left : his stable at Epsom. ' The' -point; was, did the backers of Decided, under the impression that he was a runner, lose their money? They did not back him at starting price; they took a price right out. The only curious point about the above is that any sane person could have two opinions over this. To consider' that a bet made on. the course, on a non-starter, and worse still,, a horse, not m the. race, could hold good, indicates an "all-in" idea of colossal coolness, closely approaching highway robbery. »

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NZ Truth, Issue 407, 12 April 1913, Page 2

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COLOSSAL CHEEK. NZ Truth, Issue 407, 12 April 1913, Page 2

COLOSSAL CHEEK. NZ Truth, Issue 407, 12 April 1913, Page 2

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