As regards ante-post betting, bookmakers have their own ideas as to the relative prospects of the horses entered.
When the numbers are hoisted bookmakers proclaim their readiness to lay or take certain odds, which vary according to the demand for the different animals.
This act had been aimed against what were known as "list houses," establishments then kept by bookmakers for betting purposes, and associated with many disgraceful scandals.
He ruefully thought of the last horse race at which the bookmakers had picked his ribs bare.
The bookmakers had hit him hard the day before; hence the drinking bout with a gang of chaps for whom he didn't care a rap.
Many hangers-on of the turf live almost entirely by what they are PUT ON, by bookmakers and backers for whom they do odd work.
A DARK horse is, in racing phraseology, a horse of whom nothing positive is known, but who is generally supposed to have claims to the consideration of all interested, whether bookmakers or backers.
Betters are divided in racing slang into layers and takers; they are otherwise known as bookmakers and backers.
Among sporting men bookmakers are said to have a TURN UP when an unbacked horse wins.
When a non-favourite wins a race, bookmakers are said to SKIN THE LAMB, under the supposition that they win all their bets, no person having backed the winner.
Thousands and thousands of football coupons are distributed weekly by bookmakersamong the working men at the big factories, ship-yards, etc.
I shut my eyes on the bookmakers, and I only spare attention for the myriads who make the bookmakers' existence possible--who would evolve new bookmakers from their midst if we exterminated the present tribe to-morrow.
No class of men adhere more rigidly to the point of honour than bookmakers of the better sort, and a mere nod from one of them is as binding to him as the most elaborate of parchments.
The bookmakers are usually publicans, barbers, or tobacconists; but whatever they are they invariably drive a capital trade.
My appeal to the selfish instincts of the gudgeons who are hooked by the bookmakers is made only for the sake of the helpless creatures who suffer for the follies and blundering cupidity of the would-be sharper.
That same man has means of obtaining "information" sufficient to discomfit any poor gambler who steps into the Ring and expects to beat the bookmakers by downright above-board dealing.
So admirably do the bookmakers organize their intelligence department that I hardly know more than three instances in which they have blundered after they really began to lay fiercely against a horse.
He is there to be plundered; it is his mission in life to lose, or how could the bookmakers maintain their mansions and carriages?
What if the howling bookmakers did win the district money?
But Fauchery having remarked at parting that if she had not seen the bookmakers she had seen nothing, the count was obliged to take her to them in spite of his obvious repugnance.
She leaned forward and asked him questions in a low voice, for she was aware that Vandeuvres commissioned him to arrange matters with the bookmakers so as to be able to bet the more easily.
Mind you, one or two of the largebookmakers have a suspicion, but up to now they haven't been able to prove anything.
It would be a fatal mistake to arouse the suspicions of the bookmakers at the beginning, and if this scheme breaks down we've got another one.
I don't mind telling you there is a big swindle on foot to rob the leading bookmakers and commission agents and I am trying to expose it.
It isn't so much as we expected, but we shall be able to draw the money during the next few days, and then be in a position to carry on a war against the bookmakers till we have made as much as we like.
There was something like consternation amongst the bookmakers when the news came that Dandy had won the Longhill Handicap by three lengths.
The mania for betting grows more acute every day, the number of wealthy bookmakers increases, and the national demoralisation has reached a depth which would seem inconceivable to anyone who has not lived with all sorts and conditions of men.
The very bookmakers scarcely had the heart to offer him false prices, and only the public-house spongers gave him no law.
The contrasted ways and works of such bookmakers at various times would make a not uninteresting essay of the Hayward type.
Pierre François Godard de Beauchamps seems to have been another fair example of the half-scholarly bookmakers of the eighteenth century.
The other horse ruled at odds of 5 to 1, meaning that here the bookmakers laid five dollars against the public's one.
Our horse was at odds of 1 to 6 in the betting, that is to say, the bookmakers laid only one dollar against every six bet by the public.
Among the leading patrons of the Maxim & Gay Company were soon numbered important horse owners on the turf, leading bookmakers and many leaders of both sexes in the smart set.
The bookmakers and "talent" generally conceived the idea that nobody but a very competent trainer in the confidence of horse owners could possibly be responsible for so much exact information regarding the horses.
Bookmakers as a rule are very much self-satisfied about their knowledge of the mathematics of the game.
Up to this time my personal identity had not been revealed at the race-track, and even the bookmakers did not know who was the guiding spirit of Maxim & Gay.
It was a case of "taking candy from a baby"; and yet many of the wise bookmakers could not at first figure it out.
Hardly anyone spoke to him until one or two bookmakers asked him if he wished to back his horse.
Many of the tobacconists' shops were tenanted by bookmakersand heavy wagers were recorded in them.
Much obliged, old mate, but it don't do for me to listen to such tales; we bookmakers must pay no attention to information, no matter how correct it may be.
Once more the favourite had been beaten; there were no bets to pay, and the bookmakers began to prepare for departure.
Already one or two bookmakers are shouting from their stands, and some of them have chalked up on blackboards the odds they are willing to give in the big race.
Those who have won wait near the bookmakers till the winner has been to the unsaddling enclosure and the announcement "All right" is made.
They stood on their stands beside blackboards full of horses' names and mystical figures, but they did not yell at you hoarsely, bullyingly, as bookmakers ought to do.
Then thebookmakers begin to pay out, and the crowd moves off to the paddock again to see the horses for the next race.
Two well-known bookmakers had also gone into temporary retreat for the good of their souls.
When he gets back to the betting-ring, the bookmakers are shouting hoarsely against each other.
I tell you stryte--the worst pack of rogues and bookmakersin England.
The bookmakers were jubilant and howled with delight.
He owed a lot of money, and knew if he did not pay up that the bookmakers would show him scant courtesy.
All these things being known, a certain elderly gentleman did not have to beg the bookmakers to take his money.
I held the money up where everybody could see it and I carried on scandalous when the bookmakers wouldn't take it, I'd have carried on a lot worse if one of them children of Israel had called my bluff.
The bookmakers lost a lot of confidence in human nature when you pulled that horsehair stunt on 'em, and they wouldn't give you a price now, not even if you started a nice motherly old cow against stake horses.
Certain dishonest horsemen and bookmakers were beginning to suspect that Old Man Curry was smarter than he looked.
The bookmakers had heard that the Curry horse had been taken from the car at noon, and wondered at the obstinacy of his owner in starting him, stiff and cramped from a long railroad journey.
Word ran around the betting ring that Old Man Curry was trying to bet so much money on Elisha that the bookmakers refused his wagers, and there was an immediate stampede for the betting booths and a demand for Elisha at any figure.
None of the bookmakers here will ever die of enlargement of the heart.
He tried to bet a barrel of money and the bookmakers laughed at him.
The bookmakers were glad to take in a few dollars on General Duval, if for no other reason than to round out their sheets.
The bookmakers won't get fat on what they take away from him," was the careless rejoinder.
But of course those bookmakers knew I was sulkin' out in the paddock and took the sucker money.
A dozen bookmakers turned leisurely to their slates, a dozen pieces of chalk were poised aggravatingly--and a hoarse grunt of disappointment rose from the watchers.
Thirteen bookmakers were in line and there was business for twenty.
It was only a matter of loaning one's money to the bookmakers for a little while, to be taken back shortly with fifty per cent interest.
He knew she had gone down to the bookmakers to draw the money they had won.
It was difficult to get bookmakers to lay two to one against it.
And he began to fight his way to the rails where the bookmakers shouted the odds.
John told the story of his experience in Gibson's raid on the Spring street bookmakers to two other persons, the mayor and the publisher of the paper that employed him, Cyrus W.
Don't you suppose that the 'Gink' would realize that the minute he tried doing what your friend Murphy thinks, some one of the bookmakers would get wise to it and holler?
We have indisputable evidence that the raid was framed by Cummings, but whether he acted to make trouble for the bookmakers or to enable Gibson to make a big showing we do not know.
And you figure that the 'Gink' wanted Gibson's raid to be a success because the 'Gink' has split with the bookmakers and wants to make trouble for them?
He wants to do a grandstand on da bookmakers and de 'Gink's' for him, see?
That's the edge the bookmakers have got, ain't it--the people that have real good things and then wabble when it comes to sticking to them?
He had been holding down the job of a dog-robber for the bookmakers for two seasons before he struck his lead on that nickel.
The Rube bookmakers did, but they weren't sustained, and they had to dive into their satchels.
How the Incredulity of a Lot of Bookmakers Was Turned Into Gasping Astonishment.
But When He Did Take It Into His Head to Run One Day, theBookmakers Were Damaged.
Large numbers of the best-known bookmakers from the other colonies were as usual in attendance.
I had been attending the meetings in and near Melbourne regularly and had become acquainted with a good many sporting men and the principal bookmakers and trainers.
All the large European public libraries have copies of palimpsests, which are melancholy illustrations of the literary tastes of many writers or bookmakers during the Middle Ages.
Pliny declares that the ink of the bookmakers was made of soot, charcoal and gum, although he does not state what fluid was employed to commingle them.
Just how I happened to join the Dream Builders' Association I don't know, but for several weeks I was Willie the Wild Boy at the race track and I kept all the Bookmakersbusy trying not to laugh when they took my money.
But these deeds of former days are now but traditions: His Grace has married, which is said to have taught him wisdom, and the bookmakers have grown into millionaires, with a sense of the gravity becoming their position.
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