DIVISION DEAD HEAT

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 70, 24 March 1937, Page 13

DIVISION DEAD HEAT

DIVIDEND APPORTIONMENT

Some controversy has arisen over the allocation of shares from the win pool on the Awaiti Handicap, run recently at Paeroa, as a result otithe deadheating of Bronzette and Malagigi for the honours in the first i.'division of that race (says, the "Herald"). An announcement added to the conditions of the contest in the race book stated that the win dividends would be paid in the proportion of 50 per cent, to the winner of each division, and from that it might be inferred that Bronzette and Malagigi would share one-half 'of the amount available and Llangollen, winner of the second division, the other half. However, each horse received one-third of the pool. Llangollen's dividend .was? therefore considerably shortened on what it would ordinarily have been if there had been a straight-out win in the first division.

The distribution of the dividends in such circumstances is governed by the special totalisator regulations, printed in another part of the race book. Here it was set out that the winner of or horses dead-heating for first place in any division shall, for the purposes of the win pool, be deemed to have deadheated for first place with the winders of or.the horse dead-heatirig for first place in the other divisions. 'Under the regulation, therefore, the pool was correctly allocated. Yet it, naturally seems hard that supporters of the winner of one division should be penalised through an inconclusive result in another division.