RACING INFORMATION.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 198, 22 August 1928, Page 13

RACING INFORMATION.

PUBLICATION OF DIVIDENDS.

A PETITION SUGGESTED.

The publication of dividends and the telegraphing of investments to racecourses was advocated at the annual meeting of the Takapuna Jockey Club yesterday. Mr. W. J. Ralph said that this matter was referred to by the president, the Hon E. VV. Alison, in the course of his address, (published yesterday), and to his, (the speaker's) mind, it was a very important one, and one that should be ventilated. The metropolitan clubs or the country clubs, or both combined, should get up a petition to Parliament, for he believed that every sporting man in Auckland would like to see the dividends published. The amount put through the totalisator was published and the results of the various events set out, and it was rather paradoxical that the Government would not allow the newspapers to publish dividends, the very thing the public wanted to know. He thought that the Gaming Act should be amended to allow dividends to be published and money wired to racecourses.

The president said that it was preposterous and ridiculous that money that only went to the bookmaker was not allowed to be transmitted to the eourse, and that dividends were not allowed to be published. At Auckland on Boxing Day there were 35,000 people present and all these knew the dividends, but the newspapers were not allowed to say what they were. If the Government allowed the double totalisator it would mean a general improvement to the horse owners, and the countrv would go a lone way in stopping the bookmaker.