No tote problems wanted next season

Press, 4 July 1978, Page 21

No tote problems wanted next season

Although the totalisator equipment worked efficiently at Addington Raceway at most meetings this season, there was a major breakdown on New Zealand Cup day last year, and the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club does not want to have a repetition of that. The president of the club, Mr Eugene McDermott, told members at the annual meeting last evening that the breakdown was all the more unfortunate and serious as it occurred in the panel which involved all thej higher-denomination betting and when those patrons who'

(make large investments were z forced to proceed to $1 and! t $2 windows they slowed all , investments. The result was: ■ that the totalisator was only! ) handling a small proportion) z(of the money on offer. - “Immediately after the > Cup meeting the committee met and discussed the , serious shortcomings of the I equipment and were advised.: I that no precise reason could; : be given for the failure ex-1 : cept that it was being overI loaded beyond its capabilities,” said Mr McDermott. -j In an endeavour to eliminate the possibility of a recurrence, particularly on

.Cup day and for the InterI Dominion Championships (next season, the club, in i conjunction with the Canterbury Park and New Brighton I clubs, decided to erect a furI ther totalisator building immediately behind the public stand to give some relief in overload situations. It was also decided to (make some minor alterations Ito betting denominations in I the new season and to trans-: fer some totalisator build-j ings and equipment from the: ring totalisator area to an area behind the members’. 1 stand in the direction of the Showgrounds. 1