Nearly all hustlers operate in the same manner Equipped with nothing but nerves of brass and a good memory for faces, they try to cover each race by giving each horse in it to a different person in the very sure; expectation that something they have dished out will corned in first so that they will have given a winner to someone,. In the event of a dead heat they will have had two win ners with two different suckers and can attempt to collect twice for their unerring information. The whole racket’ is as simple as that. A hustler may be or may have been anyone. He may be a stable hand, who grooms horses and walks “hots’* when he is working and victimizes the innocent when he is loose among the crowd. He may have been a trainer or a small owner who has fallen on evil days, lost his license or his horses, and is trying to make a living the best he can. He may be a former jockey, grounded by weight or for misdeeds. But whatever he may have been, and what ever he claims to be, he is nothing for a player to follow with money. A tout may be a person of relative integrity and confine himself to tipping just one horse in a race. In fact he may be so hopelessly mired in the swamp of the tracks as to think that his own opinions are worth something, and rush about dealing out his next hoped-for winner to all and sundry in the utmost good faith. But hustlers who give out only one horse in a race are scarce because this kind starves to death much sooner than the tout who follow* the tried and true procedure of covering each race by giving each horse in it in turn to a different individual or group.