BETTING SYSTEMS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 206, 1 September 1938, Page 10

BETTING SYSTEMS.

The statements of your conjeepondent J. Orr will not .bear analysis. He <»*y« that it costs twice as much under the win aad place .as it doee under the other eyettm. To my mind, there is no difference in cost ae between 10/ each way under the win and Mace and £1 for win and second place under? the existing system, which is, after all, a eWetem which compels you to back a horse with a pound bet for the first two places. Th* important difference is that under the win *nd place a punter has freedom of choice, and -should there foe such a thing as a non-trier (which all puntere will very strenuously deny)'i the house has no more chance of getting a/place than he hae of winning, eo why not/the bigger win dividend for suspicious minds banking on a correct guess only? Your correspondent eaye the Auckland Club jrave the wiu and place a trial, but all I can say is that running a win pool on an antiquated machine alongside an up-to-date electric machine was murdering any chance of popularity for the win pool. If he infers the club dropped it in its own interest, how doee he explain the retention of win and place by the Takapuna Club racing at Ellerelie and anxious to clear its liabilities ? As for possessing mature judgment in these matters, what is the short racing life of one individual (who admits 'already changing his mind) as compared with decisions arrived at in much older racing countries than New Zealand, where win and place witl» much smaller stakes is exceedingly popular? IN "THE SHADE.