> > Hard-boiled sport #2: Horse-racing
>
> How come? With all those teenie-weenie
jockeys!?
>
> What about a game of poker? Or
car-racing?
Ah, but historically, the hard-boiled wise guys are always
betting on the horses, always at races, always ripping-off
races. The jockeys? Nutthin to do with this. It's the fans
making it hard-boiled.
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