Increased Betting On Race Meetings
Totalisator investments on galloping meetings for the first 10 months of the season were £33,675,844. Of that total £19,665;953 5s was invested through the T.A.B.
Investments are up more than £2 million on the corresponding period last year; there have been increases ’ in both off and on-course betting The total for the first 10 months last year was £31,490,912. Off-course investments this season exceed course investments by more than £5 milthrough the T.A.B. compared • with £14,009,890 on the course. . The corresponding figures for last season were £18,135,912 (off-course) and £13,354,121 (on-course). Doubles Popular Doubles betting is becoming increasingly popular and accounts for £13,065,515 of the over-all total.
Off-course wagering on doubles is ■ about four times as heavy as it is on the courses.
The off-course doubles total for the present . season is £10,561,388 compared with £9,449,530 last year. The betting figures, made available yesterday in the order paper for the annual meeting of the New Zealand Racing Corfference, do not include turn-overs for Queen’s Birthday meetings or any meetings since. Figures for the Auckland and Wellington Racing Club’s
year are- not complete, and they will make substantial contributions to the total.
£2m in 10 Days Figures for the Canterbury Jockey Club’s year are complete; In 10 days’ racing at Riccarton investments have totalled £2,323,752 compared with £2,258,017 last year.-On-course investments rose from £919,866 to £959,074, offcourse win and place investments increased from £674,965 to £707,548, and off-course doubles were down by about £6OOO.
Support For Gay Filou
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) MELBOURNE, June 26. The New Zealand stayer Gay Filou, which is’ due to arrive in Melbourne by ship on Saturday, was bracketed yesterday as the second leg of two £A25,000 Caulfield and Melbourne Cup doubles. Gap Filou was taken with two • other New Zealand horses, Royal Duty and Palisade.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30478, 27 June 1964, Page 6
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