As he was hurrying to cross the course and enter the weighing enclosure Nana got Georges to call him.

Then when he came up: "What's the betting on me ?" she asked laughingly.
She referred to the filly Nana, the Nana who had let herself be shamefully beaten in the race for the Prix de Diane and had not even been placed in April and May last when she ran for the Prix des Cars and the Grande Poule des Produits, both of which had been gained by Lusignan, the other horse in the Vandeuvres stable.

Lusignan had all at once become prime favorite, and since yesterday he had been currently taken at two to one.
"Always fifty to one against," replied Labordette.
"The deuce! I'm not worth much," rejoined Nana, amused by the jest.
"I don't back myself then; no, by jingo! I don't put a single louis on myself." Labordette went off again in a great hurry, but she recalled him.

She wanted some advice.

Since he kept in touch with the world of trainers and jockeys he had special information about various stables.