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Word: bets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bet on the big fellows in the rain," a friend advised, "'causes the little ones catch cold too easily." Clocker did and lost $12. "Play your favorite number and then work backward through your family's middle names," another friend advised. Poor Clocker. He dropped...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Everything's Going' | 4/28/1955 | See Source »

...evening he found the true clue was to bet on the number one dog. This hound has been trained to run by the rail. That makes him a safe bet since he's first to the inside post and closest to "jeep...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Everything's Going' | 4/28/1955 | See Source »

...week-old fish.) Workers' Weakness. Strike or no, the race-track elite could have done worse. Alf Rubin, 38, the Worker's wide-eyed little cockney handicapper, who prints his picks under the name of "Cayton," is the best in the business. Last year, a $2 bet on every one of his choices would have brought a profit of better than $160-a remarkable performance. Alf and his paper make a strange combination. Politics, to him, is a vast irrelevance; horse racing, to the Worker, is a questionable capitalist diversion.* But back in 1935, the paper needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Coexistence on the Turf | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

Clocker Spanielle, CRIMSON handicapper, backed his choices at Suffolk Downs yesterday with $25 apiece. Result: a net profit of $140. Playing the sure-fire-method, Clocker bet all his horses to show...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Suffolk Hands $140 To Winner Clocker | 4/21/1955 | See Source »

...first race, Robert Dear, unpicked by any other handicapper in the Boston area, romped home third and brought in $125. Prompt Boy won the second going away, paying $42.50 to show. Anon, Clocker's best bet, came in second to match this earning in the eighth, but Little Ferd, and in-and-outer, ahead at the half-mile mark in the fourth, dropped...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Suffolk Hands $140 To Winner Clocker | 4/21/1955 | See Source »

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