? ? ? ? "I have seen nothing of my horse," said he.
? ? ? ? "I suppose that you would know him when you saw him?" asked Holmes.
? ? ? ? The colonel was very angry. "I have been on the turf for twenty years and never was asked such a question as that before," said he. "A child would know Silver Blaze with his white forehead and his mottled off-foreleg."
? ? ? ? "How is the betting?"
? ? ? ? "Well, that is the curious part of it. You could have got fifteen to one yesterday, but the price has become shorter and shorter, until you can hardly get three to one now."
? ? ? ? "Hum!" said Holmes. "Somebody knows something, that is clear."
? ? ? ? As the drag drew up in the enclosure near the grandstand I glanced at the card to see the entries.
? ? ? ? Wessex Plate [it ran] 50 sovs. each h ft with 1000 sovs. added, for four and five year olds. Second, 300 pounds. Third, 200 pounds. New course (one mile and five furlongs).