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The American contingent breathed afresh, and the bookies were looking glum. Once over Beecher's Brook the first time round, with half the field down, the chance of a knock-out reduced, and Gee-Woa and Kingfisher grazing peacefully under the Embankment, the favourite's chances had greatly increased.
We've drawn a considerable amount already from one or two bookies, and I believe even Masters owes us a bit now." "Thank you," Ruff said. "I think that I know everything now. My fee is five hundred guineas." Sir Richard looked at him. "What?" he exclaimed. "Five hundred guineas," Ruff repeated. "For a consultation?" Sir Richard asked. Peter Ruff shook his head. "More than that," he said.
Francis of Assisi, the mystic allusions to "certs," and "bookies," and "punters," and "evens," and "scratchings," which formed the substance of the sporting journals that were my husband's only literature. "Oh, stop it, stop it," he cried again. As time passed the gulf that separated me from my husband became still greater.
There was even a totalisator for those, which meant everybody who could obtain an advance on his pay-book, who liked what is called in racing circles "a flutter"; and there were always several amateur "bookies" as well. The only adjunct familiar to the race-courses at home missing from our meetings was the professional tipster, with his information "straight from the horse's nosebag."
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