THE BETTING MARKET.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XII, Issue 747, 30 June 1904, Page 10

THE BETTING MARKET.

Messrs Barnett and Grant report the following business on the Gband National Steeplechase and Hurdles 1000 to 10 Comfort and la 900 to 9 Pipi and Roseshoot 500 to 7| Slow JTom and Creusot, Haydn and Creusot 500 to 3 Pipi and Lissa 400 to 12 Slow Tom and Roseshoot 400 to 7 Haydn and Roseshoot 400 to 4 Eclair and Roseshoot 300 to 9 Haydn and Waiwera 300 to 7 Slow Tom and Waiwera 300 to 3 Catherine Gordon and Roseshoot 300 to 2 Catherine Gordon and Spalpeen New Zealand Cup 500 to 28 Canteen 500 to 11 Nonette 500 to 5 Speculate 400 to 19 Roseal 400 to 8 Blackstone Mr J. Loughlin, Dunedin, reports as follows on the New Zealand Cup 200 to 12 Canteen 400 to 24 Roseal 200 to 2 Geordie 100 to 1 Gladstone 1000 to 5 Joe Chamberlain 400 to 16 Lady Lillian 200 to 4 Red Gauntlet Grand National teeplechase and Hurdles 600 to 18 Haydn and Waiwera 900 to 27 Slow Tom and Roseshoot 250 to 1 Moccasin and Hippowai 400 to 2 Comfort and Aka Aka 100 to 1 Slow Tom and Slow Tom Winter Cup, Steeplechase and Hubdles, 200 to £ Pampero, Haydn, and Roseshoot; Grand Rapids, Haydn and Waiwera ; Lady Lillian, Slow Tom and Roseshoot ; Lady Lillian, Haydn, and Roseshoot 200 to Pampero, Slow Tom, and Roseshoot

The Sydney writer, “Milroy,” gives an amusing instance of how racing matters were conducted in the back-blocks twenty years ago : —“lt was at Richmond on the Flinders, and race time. A very useful horse in Speculation won the’double on that occasion. His stable mate, Richmond Gem, by Grandmaster, was fancied by the local double backers for the two big races, but he was withdrawn in favour of Speculation. Ihe scratching of Richmond Gem caused a lively free fight. Three or four of that original gang known all over the Gulf of Carpentaria country as the ‘Twelve Apostles’ were present in the town, and during their stay were seldom seen in any other attitude but two—either in a fighting posture or sleeping off the effects of the local firewater. One of the ‘apostles’ had taken a Richmond Gem double from a local bookmaker, ard refiscd to pay at the settling on the gro: nd of the horse teing a nonstarter. There eng no Tattersall’s within a thousand miles of Richmond, tie odds iner hant threatened to ‘post’ the ‘apostle’ cn a gum tree. The thought of such dire disgrace to a man of his reputation ar ong the wild race that did so much towards opening up the country raised the ire of this bearded Gulf nomad, and he delivered a swift, straight right-hander in the direction of the bookmaker, and that übiquitous person stopped it with his nose. Then the fun began, Instanter 20 men were out in the particularly dusty road engaged irt a struggle not unremindful of a football struggle with strong punching thrown in. After a while a small, thin, cortsumptive-look-ing, little squatter got in amongst the struggling crowd and separated the hustling mob in order to give the original combatants a fair opportunity of settling their dispute in the good old style, and without the assistance of partisans. The bookmaker was seconded by a magistrate of the territory, who is now high up in the world of politics, arid the wants of the ‘apostle’ were attended to by an atheletic, sporting squatter, then sowing ‘wild oats’ biF who is now a distinguished member "T society in a neighbouring State. Whe.. the battle was over and the winner declared, the two troopers stationed in the settlement to keep order appeared on the scene and arrested the boxers, who were next day fined £5 each by a bench of local magistrates, two of whom, acted as seconds in the combat, while the third had conspicuously distinguished himself as ringkeeper.”