Word: pari
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, when the press found time for a second look, reporters found the real Rube Marquard. He was far from the Bowery. He had a perfectly good job as a pari-mutuel ticket-seller at the $50 window at a New Jersey race track, and insisted indignantly that the $50 window was a post no drinking man could hold. He had spent the previous evening playing pinochle with his wife and the neighbors...
...trouble getting the $60,000 down, even though pari-mutuel betting is illegal in Texas. On race day, a mixed lot of Mexicans, gaily-shirted cowpokes and bigtime cattle and oil men walked around the race grounds clutching $100 bills and hunting bettors. ''Two hundred even on Princess". . . . "A hundred says Shue Fly daylights Princess" (meaning Shue Fly would win with daylight between her and her rival). It was so hot-110°-that men lined up in the shade of telephone poles and women held wet towels over their heads. By lunch time, even without pari-mutuel...
Even Jet Pilot's owner, Cosmetiqueen Elizabeth Arden, was almost too preoccupied to notice his debut. Her thoughts at the 1946 Derby were on her highly touted entry, Lord Boswell, Knockdown, Perfect Bahram, who were to carry her colors in the big race-but finished out of the pari-mutuel money. But some who saw Jet Pilot's debut said sagely: "There's the winner of next year's Derby...
Daily Double. Under the Ministry of Animal Breeding, Russia has even revived the sport of kings. Gambling was once loathsome to Leninists; now the daily double pays up to $400. The way Muscovites queue up at the pari-mutuel windows of the Moscow State Hippodrome shows that a difference of opinion can still exist (on some points) in the totalitarian state. The horses have inspiring names: Ore Production, Tractor II, Ten Days, Karl Marx. Right now, the favorite is Kropotkin. Though they are all state-owned, there is no suspicion that they run according to plan...
When racing was banned, jai alai suddenly became the lone remaining form of pari-mutuel wagering in Miami - and in the rest of the U.S. Since then, Cuba's national pastime has boomed at Miami's Biscayne Fronton, where attendance last week was almost double last season's and mutuel betting more than double. One night 3,478 fans watched the Latins strut their stuff and bet a record $66,335 on their favorite pelota-slingers...