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Updated: October 6, 2026
Hasty and anxious are the glances which the speculator casts at the betting-lists: he there sees which are the favourites; whether those he has backed are advancing or retrograding; and he endeavours to discover, by signs and testimonies, by all kinds of movements and dodges, the knowing one's opinion.
But the betting-lists are the attraction these are the dice of the betting-man: a section of one of the side-walls within the office is devoted to them. They consist of long strips of paper each race having its own slip on which are stated the odds against the horses.