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1885 the feat was once more accomplished, this 

 time by the French horse, Plaisanterie. 



The Cesarewitch and Cambridgeshire, as has 

 been stated, are big betting races, more money 

 being wagered over these events in the present 

 day than over any other handicaps of the year. 

 The two find favour in the eyes of double event 

 bettors ; the foreign bookmakers in particular 

 laid themselves out to accommodate the betting 

 public to any extent. Two thousand pounds to 

 twenty shillings is the limit fixed for such bets, 

 and every now and then the feat of combining in 

 one bet the names of the winning horses of both 

 events is accomplished. In the year Cardinal 

 York won the one race and Adonis the other the 

 success of several double event bettors was 

 recorded by the press. One gentleman, a stock- 

 broker, was named as being the winner of twelve 

 thousand pounds, the risk he ran in obtaining 

 that sum being nine pounds ten shillings only. 

 As may be supposed, where one is successful 

 thousands fail. A bookmaker doing only a small 

 business informed the writer that of sixteen 

 hundred and seventy-two double event bets which 

 he laid against the chances of naming the two 

 winners, only thirteen persons were successful in 

 coupling the first winner with a horse for the 

 second event, and none of those who tried suc- 

 ceeded in the feat of naming both winners. An 

 Edinburgh bookmaker who at one time accommo- 

 dated small bettors with double event bets on the 

 same races, never once required to pay, although 

 thousands tried their luck. 



Those persons who bet on the results of the 

 race for the Cambridgeshire, when they are so 



