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But since the Swedish academy's methods for selecting the prize-winner are a mystery to all but its members, those odds reflect almost exclusively the opinions of gamblers, most of whom are rather like the horseplayers who bet their favorite number or color of the jockey's silks.

Nobel Prize In Literature 2010: Peruvian Author Mario Vargas Llosa Wins The Huffington Post 2010

But since the Swedish academy's methods for selecting the prize-winner are a mystery to all but its members, those odds reflect almost exclusively the opinions of gamblers, most of whom are rather like the horseplayers who bet their favorite number or color of the jockey's silks.

Nobel Prize In Literature 2010: Peruvian Author Mario Vargas Llosa Wins The Huffington Post News Team 2010

But since the Swedish academy's methods for selecting the prize-winner are a mystery to all but its members, those odds reflect almost exclusively the opinions of gamblers, most of whom are rather like the horseplayers who bet their favorite number or color of the jockey's silks.

Nobel Prize In Literature 2010: Peruvian Author Mario Vargas Llosa Wins The Huffington Post 2010

But since the Swedish academy's methods for selecting the prize-winner are a mystery to all but its members, those odds reflect almost exclusively the opinions of gamblers, most of whom are rather like the horseplayers who bet their favorite number or color of the jockey's silks.

Nobel Prize In Literature 2010: Peruvian Author Mario Vargas Llosa Wins The Huffington Post News Team 2010

Even still, The Weekly Standard wrote yesterday: But since the Swedish academy's methods for selecting the prize-winner are a mystery to all but its members, those odds reflect almost exclusively the opinions of gamblers, most of whom are rather like the horseplayers who bet their favorite number or color of the jockey's silks.

Nobel Prize In Literature 2010: Peruvian Author Mario Vargas Llosa Wins The Huffington Post News Team 2010

In a couple of years, he'll probably be telling people that he's been to Saratoga more than many, if not most of the horseplayers.

Flashback: Rudy Said He Was At Site "Five, Six Times A Day For Four Months" 2009

Most of the time, horseplayers contend with modern indignities: cheap claiming races, near-deserted racetracks, waning media attention, government entities taking a huge cut of their winnings and races with fields so small they're hardly worth looking at.

Betting the Breeders' Cup 2008

There are no rich horseplayers, however; only rich horse owners.

In Another Early Morning The Daily Growler 2006

The ballroom had also become a refuge for the ne-er-do-wells of wartime society, out-of-work dance instructors practicing to the raspy tango of a gramophone, horseplayers with time on their hands since the racetracks were closed.

December 6 Smith, Martin Cruz 2002

It did not matter that it was pouring and that a wet, gloomy day had kept many horseplayers away.

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