RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume C, Issue 29623, 20 September 1961, Page 23

RANDOM REMINDER

WELL, IT WORKS THIS WAY...

By and large, the programmes issued for trotting meetings in Christchurch give the punter every encouragement. Times for the opening and shutting of totalisators on the separate races and on the doubles are printed clearly, and look no more confusing than a railway timetable. The student of form is able to follow, if he is really on the job, the breeding of the horses, who owns them, who trains them, who drives them. He can see almost at a glance be meaning and what marks they will start from. Information on the distance to be run, and the stakes to be earned, is given willingly by the authorities. But if a punter is to master his craft, there should be no doubts at all in "his mind about any of the mechanics of the

game. He should know it. all. How, then, can the trotting clubs in all conscience provide the defeated punter, sitting in the stand, with this as his set lesson? ...

In respect of the Place Pool the following provisions shall apply: (a) The amount available for payment of dividends on the place pool shall be divided into as many equal parts as there are horses placed in the dividend bearing places and each such part shall be divided among the investors on one of such horses, notwithstanding that by reason of any dead heat or dead heats, the number of such horses shall exceed the number of dividend bearing places, <b) For the purposes of this regulation horses included in the same bracket and filling dividend bearing places, shall be reckoned separately and the sum to be divided among the investors on such bracket shall be the sum of the several amounts allotted to each of such horses: (c) In computing dividends no account shall be taken of any hone on which no tic-

kets shall have been taken, and in such case the pool shall be divided into as manyequal parts as there are horses, on which tickets have been taken, tn dividend bearing places. Provided that where the dividend bearing places are first and second only, and by reason of the operation of this condition there 1* left in those places not more than one horse In respect of which a dividend can be computed a hone or dead-heating horses placed third shall be deemed to ba In a dividend bearing place, save that nothing In this proviso shall operate to allot for division between

such dead-heating horses any Sester share of the pool an the amount that would be allotted to one hone leaning third . . from The Regulations Governing the Computation of Dividends.

It seems to this column that he has spent his betting career having an equal part of a deadheating place-bearing bracketed non-dividend horse. He intends to consult his solicitor.