MYSTERY No.0033 · Solve on your own

Three Winning Predictions

A thoughtful cat looking at a laptop showing a racehorse, an email symbol and three check marks
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A man had been receiving emails predicting which horse would win a race. The predictions were right three times in a row, and he was about to pay a large fee for the next one. But when he learned that emails from the same sender had stopped arriving for a friend partway through, he decided not to pay. What did the man suspect?

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