BACKED THE WINNER
TOTALISATOR RECORD. The second extra meeting of the Poona racing season will certainly be remembered as a red-letter day by Mr. M. Khambatta, a Bombay Parsee, and should ever be famous in the history of the turf, inasmuch as the totalisator one afternoon paid out a dividend that must be a world’s record in odds. The second race of the afternoon was for Arab ponies. Mr. Khambatta, who is a well-to-do liquor contractor, backed Kletitor because the totalisator indicator showed that not a single other punter had done so. His ten rupees for a win was the only bet made on Kletitqr, and that neglected animal won easily by one and three-quarter lengths. Mr. Khambatta was staggered to find he was! entitled to a dividend of Rs. 17,109. That is to say, for approximately 13/- he won £ll4O. The enormous odds caused the racecourse officials some extra work. The plate showing the result of the race and the prices paid by the totalisator’ had to have an extra nail hammered in to show Kletitor’s five-figure dividend.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 3 November 1923, Page 3
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