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Show WHAT PRICE HORSE RACE SPORT? Those "on the inside" of horse race betting, when talking among themselves, them-selves, say that in a $500,000 race the bettors put up 100 per cent of the amount. If the book-makers are especially es-pecially liberal in their odds, it is said that the bettors get back 70 per cent, or $350,000 of the $500,000 they put up. In three such races the bookmakers book-makers get nearly 90 per cent of the bettors' money, or $450,000. That is not all the bettors lose. In the end they often lose those intangible assets as-sets which are worth more than money character and self-respect,! from a sense of folly. |