INCREASED BETTING

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24745, 10 December 1945, Page 4

INCREASED BETTING

SATURDAY’S RACING AT RICCARTON During the three days of the Canterbury Jockey Club’s meeting, which concluded at Riccarton on Saturday, £408,411 was handled by the totalisator, an increase of £141,505 compared with the two-day meeting last year. The last year in which the meeting extended over more than two days was 1941. In that year, £263.720 10s went through the totalisator. Thus, with the racing confined to three days, an increase of £144,691 10s or about 55 per cent., was effected compared with the four days of the 1941 meeting. On Saturday the amount handled was £119,614 10s. The following table shows the amounts handled at Riccarton since 1940; £ 1945 (three days) 408 411 1944 (two days) .. 266^906 1943 (two days) .. 244,366 1942 (two days) .. 182.039 1941 (four days) .. 263,7201 1940 (four days) .. 253,144| Nearly £900.000 passed through the totalisators at Riccarton and Addington I during the six days of racing and troG ting just concluded. At Addington. | investments totalled £488.008 10s, and jat Riccarton, the total was £408.411 (making a grand total of £896,419 10s for the six days. In 1941, when there were four days’ racing and three days’ trotting, the totalisator at Riccarton handled £263,720 10s, and at Addington, £220,286 10s. Thus the total for the seven days’ racing. £484,007 was' exceeded by £412,412 10s in the six days just concluded, an increase of 85 per cent.