What with an utterly dismal day, tone of the smallest attendances on record, a card which did not attract any of the first-class ponies—and, as is now the well-established custom, far too big a card, anyway—there was not much "enjoyment to be found at Kiangwan on Saturday. Indeed, the principal interest seem ed to' centre round still another Detting idea. Apparently there are business brains at_work with the fixed intention of introducing every possible variation of betting on the two suburban courses, for no sooner one money-making' idea tried and dropped than along' comes another.
The latest notion is. a pari-mutuel fon two places in addition to. the! customary one on three, the attrac-Hon being the big dividends to be expected "if two outsiders fill frst und second. It was but very poorly. patronised and its popularity did not increase when it was found thet, fon occasions, its dividends actually were smaller than those on the three-place pari-mutuel.
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