“AW, BUDDY!”
SAILORS PICKING WINNERS.
RIDER IN RED DIDN’T START
SYDNEY, July 28.—" Say, that was great, pickin’ Windbag for foist. Let’s back number one in the next run. ’ ’
"No good. Number one’s scratch
"Aw, buddy, that’s bad luck. Wo better keep off him if he’s gonna be lame. ’ ’ They knew very little about our racing terms, and it took a while to understand that a "quid’’ was a pound or about live dollars; but the crowd of American sailors at Jtamlwick yesterday had a great time. To many of them the sport was new, since California has no races, and the nearest course to San Diego, tho Pacific .Fleet’s station, is 12.1 miles away, at Tia Juana —or, to say it in American —"Tee Wahna, Mexico.” A BET ON THE NOSE. "Boy, this is some track,” said one, as he surveyed the course from the stand. "Better than Belmont Park will ever be.” „Most of them understood the working of the "pari-mutuel,” and one, who had soon races in the Western States, pointed out that you could "bet on the nose” there, in flic same way as in Australia, with the bookmakers.
It was his turn to explain, then. To "bet on the nose” was to back a horse to win a straight-out bet. Generally, they made use of the totalisator, but the relative values of Australian and American currency often tangled them up. One, however, showed a good knowledge of our coinage when, in sharing-a 5s ticket .with his mate, he. said, "You give me two of those bobs and two of those little gadgets, and we'so right.” FOX HUNT NEXT? They were in parties of three or four, and each group had at least one hardened punter to superintend their wagers. In several cases the advice was good enough to send them home winners. The clerk of the course had a lot of them puzzled, and there was plenty of humor in their suggestions as to the reason for liis costume.
"Say! lie’s got a pretty uniform,” ono remarked, leaning against the fence in the leger, and watching a preliminary canter, "Guess lie’s going to the fahx-hunt. from here.”
It was a great day, with the saving satisfaction that if their money went as a punter’s usually does, they woulc not have to walk home.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16805, 11 August 1925, Page 12
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388“AW, BUDDY!” Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16805, 11 August 1925, Page 12
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