Word: bettor
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Prompt telegraphic reports were useful only in "relieving the anxiety of the. bettor," he said. When Bookmaker Carroll was asked if he opposed the bill, he replied: "It is a matter of complete indifference...
...bettors choice was Freebooter, a coffee-colored gelding and half-brother of an Irish plow horse. But the sentimental favorite of thousands of British housewives was Princess Elizabeth's Monaveen. Last week, in Aintree's bright spring sunshine, Britain's royal family peered down from the roof of the clubhouse as anxiously as any two-shilling bettor as the 49 starters crowded to the post...
...Williamson, his owner, who had bet ?10 on him at 300 to 1 in the winter books, collected a cool $12,000. Also prideful was the London Daily Worker's handicapper, who had picked Russian Hero to win, insisting that the tip was not purely political, just a bettor's hunch...
...accordance with his last wish, the ashes of Herbert Wood, a $2 bettor, were scattered on the home stretch of the Saratoga racetrack...
...findings: poor parking facilities, not enough elbow room in grandstands. So Doc ordered up the largest parking lot in the U.S. (215 acres of it) and an ultra-roomy grandstand. His attendants, ushers and gatemen were drilled in courtesy. Strub even handed out kindly advice to the uninitiated bettor, posted such warnings as: "Bet only what you can afford to lose, not what you hope...