Met. president wants dog racing excluded

Press, 4 July 1978, Page 21

Met. president wants dog racing excluded

The president of the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club. Mr Eugene McDermott, feels that if computerised betting is introduced on course — and that seems a strong possibility in the next year or two — then greyhound racing interests should not benefit from the scheme unless they are prepared to nay their fair share of the cost. Mr McDermott told members at the club’s annua! meeting last evening that a bold and imaginative plan to computerise all totalisator

i operations, both on and off. (course, had been put for-1 ’ward by officers of the. T.A.B. in conjunction with] some club officers, including I Mr John Wright, totalisator! manager at Addington Race-1 way. "Your club has signified’ its willingness to participate in such a scheme which will, when it eventuates, revolutionise betting in New Zealand and may give the on course operation opportunity to compete with the off course and offer many more forms of betting than is

fl available at the present [time,” he said. :i Mr McDermott pointed: 11 out, however, that the, /method of financing the! (scheme had not been re(solved and that it would be; (beyond the iesources of the! (clubs themselves. “There is no doubt that! the current assets of the Totalisator Agency Board have been derived solely from the trotting and racing sports and there must be no ' way that dog racing interests are handed a share of those assets,” he said.