TTING IN ENGLAND.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 141, 17 June 1930, Page 12

TTING IN ENGLAND.

'. ONE MILLION. AND A QUARTER. (British-Official Wireless.) .. j<" ' .".'RtJGBY, Juno IC. ? c] ' Since January 1 £1)250,000 worth of !-fa betting lias been Jiandled by the totaltsa- ;t] tor which has now been installed by the ;fi itacecourse Betting Control Board, or is k in' course of construction, on 74. race- ;'g courses in England. a The board claims that the chief pur- si poses of the totalisator—namely, to H attract more people to.the races—has Y been achieved. .'• On 113 racing days this T year at 03 meetings the attendances ; were greater by an average of 39' per cent than those of last .year. . . bi —. . :—;—-— ■• ■ hi WAIPA MEETING. E w ADDITIONAL HANDICAPS. .f< h< The followijig arc additions to the ;•"* handica])S for the Waipa meeting:-;— i^ 1 Te Awamutu Steeplechase:—Wako" ■ King, 9.5. ;?; Arapuni Handicap.—Valstreet, 9.10. PATADAWN FOR; MELBOURNE. S1 The New Zealand-bred gelding, Pata- + dawn, who was narrowly beaten by Glas- ( ] { gow at Warwick Farm on June 7, will ] e ' .do his future racing in Melbourne. He y will go into V. O'Neill's Caulfield stables. ' \ v O'Neill trained the Melbourne and Aus- ;j^ tralian Cup winner Spearfelt. P.nta- m dawn has done fairly wqll since he joined Jj P. Siddle's team at Randwick, but it is si thought that -as the horse . was. Ac- K ciistqmed to the going ■ before cc going to Sydneyhe may do lietter )n w Melbdiirnc. '■ ' oi