Jackpot fails to lure the punters
(A’.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND. Even given the chance of something for nothing—the chance of a sizeable jackpot prize with no entry' fee—racegoers were feyver in number at Ellerslie on Saturday than on the first day of the Auckland spring! meeting last year. The attendance yvas 13,865; compared yvith 14,106 on the ( same day last year but the on-j course betting rose, from j $602,295 to .$654,566. One better, a young Takapuna i man, picked five of the six win-1 tiers in the jackpot and made' his claim in the alloyvable 30! minutes after the last of the six I events to win the $250 consola-i tion prize. If yvon outright next Saturday; the jackpot prize yvill be $2750. j Club officials were not too dis-; appointed that the attendance! failed to top that of last year, j They are hopeful that as thei jackpot pool swells so yvill the i crowds. If not yvon before then.. the jackpot will terminate! at the club's meeting on January 26 for a prize of $6750 iff yvon outright, or of $-4750 if! ayvarded to the racegoer picking the highest number of consecutive yvinners, including the first.'
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33966, 6 October 1975, Page 8
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