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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 726, 27 July 1929, Page 14

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! WORKMAN WHO STARTED i WITH £2O AND SOON MADE IT UP TO £2,000

LAYERS RUN SHORT Story of a great betting coup made by a working man is told in Sydney betting circles by the bookmakers, who had to pay hi mhuge amounts in cash at Moorefield races last Saturday week. A man ot moderate means and working at a trade, but a gambler to the backbone, he took a bank of £2O to Moorefield races, which he had accumulated in the last three weeks. His luck began quickly, for from his modest means he put only small amounts on each of the first two winners. Then he kept doubling up until long before the finish of the day’s racing he was betting in fifties and hundreds. He backed every winner during the day, and when his big money was coming he had £IOO on Shankara at nearly three and £IOO on Royal Duke at nearly twos, although the starting price was more. Money to Burn On Waipori he had only £2O at double figures. But his really big killing came in the last race, when he

had "money to burn.” He invested £SO oft Aorangi at little short of doubles. Then, believing that that horse was unbeatable, he had another fling on him. This time he had to take seven fifties. Aorangi won and the investment brought him in £750. His total winnings for the day amounted to £2,00Q, and long before the last some of the big cash bets he made had bookmakers going about borrowing big sums from their colleagues who had brought bigger cash banks to the course. It was one of the most picturesque cash gambling coups made on a Sydney course for some years. RACING FIXTURES JULY 25, 27—Gisborne R.C. 27 South Canterbury Hurt. AUGUST -Christchurch Hunt 3—Poverty Bay Hunt 13. 15, 17—Canterbury J.C. 24—Pakuranga Hunt (at Ellerslie> 24—Hawke's Bay Hunt 28— Dannevirke RC. 29 Dannevirke Hunt 4. 6—Marton J.C 31—Taranaki Hunt SEPTEMBER 4, s—Marton J.C. 7—Otago Hunt 12. 14—Wanganui J.C. 21—Ashburton R.C. 21—Napier Park R.C. 21 23—Avondale J.C.