EXPENSIVE WAGERS.
The £10,OCO yearling book which Sir John Willoughby made last summer on next year's Ep»om Derby (writes our London correspondent) begins to look the reveise of a promising investment. Amongst the youngsters against whom he has laid the conventional £10,000 to £100 are, it seems, Snrefoot, Heaume, Semolina and Riviera. He can scarcely, however, be in a worse position (John Corlett reminds us) than the maker of the yearling book on the Derby <A 1866, who opened it by laying £10,000 to £100 each to Mr Sutton againet Loid Lyon and Rustic. The noble lord in question got frightened at his po-ition early in the autumn of 65, and induced Mi Sutton to lay him back 4,500 to 1,000 asrainst the pair, which left him a loser of £5,000 if either horse won, and £800 if they lost. Bad business as this seemed at the time, (he amateur bookmaker who scored for Lord Lyon started with odds ot 6 to 5 on him, and won, and Rustic (sold to the Duke of Beaufort) saw as little as 5 to 2 and ran third.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 419, 19 October 1889, Page 6
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185EXPENSIVE WAGERS. Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 419, 19 October 1889, Page 6
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