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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume VII, Issue 328, 5 November 1896, Page 12

Judge Jo'hn Carter says there are few bookmakers in the West (America) now that will take a decent bet, and tells that it was recently wellnigh impossible to get 200dol on at 4 to 1. He bet 100 dol with one bookmaker at the odds, and started across the ring to place the remaining lOOdol in a book lun by the same man. Before he could reach book No. 2, however, Bookie No. 1 had shouted across the ring to cut the odds—- “ here comes a man to bet you lOOdol on Then the odds were cut to 3to 1 all round. The game is therefore tough on the men that like to make fair-sized bets, and it would be cause for rejoicing if the bookmakers retired from the arena altogether and their places were filled with Paris mutuel machines. Liberal bookmaking is very well, but booking as we saw it at the local tracks along toward the close was, taken in all, of very poor quality.— Breeder and Sportsman.