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whose only chance is making running, whether 

 short or long distances, light or high weights, 

 suit him the best, he goes on the broad scale 

 of the odds. If, we will say, six to four being 

 against the favourite, he so arranges his book 

 that he bets it once, twice, or twenty times 

 over, as suits his bets against other horses, of 

 whom, probably, he knows little more than 

 they are animals in the race ; he only judges 

 of them by the current odds. If the odds 

 change, he does not trouble his head with the 

 why or wherefore, they have changed, whether 

 it arises from such a horse having showed 

 lame, or on the contrary having been so, but 

 now being at work again, is a point he never 

 considers. He changes his book in accordance 

 with what the odds are^ and hedges or stands 

 his money on in accordance with the present 

 betting and the state of his book. He 

 verifies the old adage, " sufficient for the 

 day, &c., &c." 



