subs. (racing).—The day’s winnings; a pocket-book.
1898. BINSTEAD, A Pink ’Un and a Pelican, 227. Here it was that Exile No. 1 made the painful discovery that he’d lost his ‘PARCEL.’ His pocket-book and all it contained had vanished.
1901. The Sporting Times, 6 April, 1, 3. No less than four winners did the wily one back. “My word!” he cried, “I shall have a pretty little PARCEL in my kick.”
