EASY MONEY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 334, 20 April 1928, Page 6

EASY MONEY

FOR SYDNEY BETTORS STORY OF PLUNGERS £2,000 ON CUP WINNER Ante-post bookmakers who bet on the Easter double at Randwick, the Doncaster and Cup, report that the victories of Simeon’s Fort and Winaiot took a huge sum out of the ring. On the Monday before the Doncaster, one Victorian punter alone supported the combination for £20,000. The aggregate of the bigger bookmakers was £60,000. This same Victorian punter has had a wonderful meeting at Randwick, clearing up about £20,000 so far. Another huge course bettor who doesn’t worry with doubles or betting before the day, also collected in the neighbourhood of £20,000 at settling time. Straight Out A small coterie of backers took £30,000 out on Simeon’s Fort straight out for the Doncaster, but the public got most of the "Winaiot money. Irlis victory cost the ring £120,000. Course betting was expensive to some bookmakers. Randwick’s leviathan repor-ted a loss of £10,00*) on the two days, lost mostly on Cup day over Winaiot, Oatendale and Vallino. tie was a trifle unfortunate in having risen from his bed on the Thursday morning at 4.30 to see the morning gallops and one whose tired, lackadaisical appearance struck him was V allino. He laid her at double figures for substantial sums, and along - came a punter to take £ 2,400. Vallino finished *up favourite, and won, (Jetting up early that morning cost the bookmaker £3,000. He Laid £12,000 This bookmaker also laid £12,000 against the winning - double, Simeon's Fort and Winaiot. lie laid, too, 1:5,000 o gainst Simeon's Fort straight out, and £5,000, besides other wagers at longer odds against Winaiot straight out for the Cup. Another book laid £B,OOO the winning double; still another £G,000; and tlireo others £5,000. Barly the double, Simeon's Fort and Winaiot, was quoted at over four figures on some betting charts.. Several big wagers wer laid at just four figures, but the greater part of the betting on the combination was done on the pair when they had come into marked prominence, and the quotation was at three figures and less. Most of the big money at these quotes was taken after Simeon’s Fort and Winaiot had run at Warwick Farm a week earlier. The Friday before a commissioner had secured £15,000 about Simeon’s Fort for the Doncaster. lie tried to get more on, but that was all there was to lay at the moment. A sum of £BOO was put on him at Warwick Farm in the Cabrainatta Handicap, in which he failed. Not Disappointed But the connections were not disappointed with the failure, and several big backers from Melbourne on the Sunday and Monday before Band wick opened secured further big wagers about Simeon’s Fort at good double figures. This confidence in face of his defeat was surprising. But evidently Simeon’s Fort was improving all the week, and backing for him continued throughout the betting until flagfall on the day of the race. A Victorian punter who benefited in tho big win on Simeon’s Fort, and also in the double with Winaiot, liau big sums to pay out on other wagers. He had, for instance, £-5,000 about Valwyne with Simeon’s Fort, and £ 35,000 about Imitator in the double. These and other losing wagers took some of his profits. But nevertneless he has had a wonderful meeting. He collected heavily from Moilison, Sion, Oatendale and Vallino. H.e even had £I,OOO on Mendit, winner of the Steeple, at about Be Choucas price. Fancy investing £I,OOO on horses over IS stiff fences! Another punter who scored well over the two days is known as ‘‘The Tiger” by the bookmakers. He digs his fangs in deep. The first day at Randwick would have been a royal day but lor laying odds on Trivalve, who lost the Leger. But he won on Simeon’s Fort and Moilison. Profiting from that lesson, he put £ 2,000 on Winaiot in the Cup and won heavily. It was he who had the £2,400 on Vallino, but that was only one of many big wagers he collected on that winner. Oatendale provided another big coup for him. and the total profit of the two days was £ 20,000.