Possible Clues:

• Lay on the line
• Venture can bring remuneration, right?
• Play favorites, perhaps
• Composer's abandoning new act for "The Gamblers"?
• It might be placed at a window
• Something often laid at a window
• $2 on the gray mare, e.g.
• What you may make at a fight
• Trained, grew round a stake
• At first grew crookedly - stake required