Brewer's: Stumers

in the language of the $$$, are fictitious bets recorded in the books of bookmakers, and published in the papers, to deceive the public by running up the odds on a horse which is not meant to win.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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