BETTING UP BY ALMOST £2m
Betting on and off course on galloping meetings in the first 10 months of the racing season has exceeded £40,000,000, and has increased by £1,996,553 over the same period last year.
By the end of May £40,084,335 had passed through T.A.B. and racecourse totalisator windows. The total for the corresponding period last season was £38,086,882. Off-course bets, £24,238,725, have exceeded on-course investments by more than £8,000,000. The popularity of doubles betting with T.A.B. patrons grows year by year. In the present season T.A.B. doubles betting has accounted for £13,943,493, an increase of £3,934,304.
of the on-course total of £15,845,609. Doubles investments on courses are £2,967,453, an increase of £162,303 on last year. The New Zealand Racing Conference’s statistics do not include figures from 23 meetings, including the big winter carnivals at Ellerslie and Trentham, but everything indicates betting records all round this season.
The figures for the Canterbury Jockey Club are complete. On its 11 days’ racing off-course betting amounted to £1,479,908 and the oncourse total was £1,047,119.
Win and place investments have accounted for £12,878,156
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31409, 30 June 1967, Page 1
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