VICTORIAN TOTALISATOR

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 139, 16 June 1930, Page 6

VICTORIAN TOTALISATOR

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When the totalisator is installed at Remington it will probably be one of the most up-to-date machines of its kind iii the world, says a Melbourne paper. It may even represent an improvement on those modern betting appliances in use in other parts of the world. The Victoria Racing Club is determined to do the job properly, and it is estimated that the buildings for housing the totalisator on ■various parts of the course may cost ,'£40,000. The committee of the club is anticipating ■ that the machines will involve it in an outlay of anything up to [£60,000, so that the total cost of the installation of, the totalisator. at Flemingiton may be in the vicinity of £100,000. It is now considered that the totalisator Ja use at Randwick is obsolete, in the fight of more recent developmentl} in the improvement of the totalisator. The system which it is proposed to introduce at Jlemington will give the totalisator every Chance to become popular. Taking the principal enclosure as an example, there •Will be a main totalisator house to accommodate the principal machine in a central position in the enclosure. To facilitate the handling of business and incidentally^ to obviate the necessity to erect a huge central building' if it were concentrated, it is proposed that there shall be supplementary depots in various parts of the enclosure, where people may invest or receive their dividends. These depots will be linked with the main central machine. Just as the central machine will' show the total investments on each horse, so will the totals for the whole enclosiire be automatically shown at each receiving depot at tha same time. The same system will probably be applied to the hill, though pot as extensively as in the main enclosfrre, which is so large aftd spread over a Jride area. But the Flemington totalisator will probably go much further than that. It is practically certain that it will not only ihow the total investments on each bqr&e, but that it will also disclose the amount «f dividend each fibster is pa^H* at ■the fcmnfc a person makes tt H * '..vestment md at the stari of the race, the adjustment being automatic as investments are Blade. The system places the machine ?n the same footing as the bookmaker, t is in operation on some courses in ,- Europe, and is a recent development. Tho totalisator at Flemington will bo electric- ■ filly and automatically operated. The imachine in operation at Longchamps, jFrance, is considered to be one of the )rnost modern in existence. Flemington's i>tal3B(etor tnajr be very largely; fashioned

upon it, but presumably with the later improvement- that have followed upon the refusal of the .English Jockey Club to accede to the .demands of the company formed to place the Julius machine, now in operation at Kandwiek and other courses—known as the Australian totalisator—upon the courses of England.