BETTING AT TROTS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22032, 12 February 1935, Page 13

BETTING AT TROTS

CHANGE IN THE SYSfEM TWO POOLS TO BE USED A change in the system of betting has been decided upon by the Auckland Trotting Club for its February meeting, to be held at Alexandra Park, Epsom, next Saturday and 011 the following Wednesday. There will be two separate pools, one providing for two dividends in the ratio of 75 per cent and 25 per cent, and the other for threedividends, 33 1-3 per cent each, in fields of eight or more, and two dividends, 50 per cent each, in'fields of five, six or seven. In the event of there, being fewer than five starters in any •race,' there will be only one pool, with the dividend 011 the first horse. The new system was first introduced at the recent meeting of the For bury Park .Trotting Club in Dunedin, and was considered very successful, the totalisator turnover showing a large increase. The Dunedin Jockey Club has also adopted the system for the cup meeting to be held at Wingatui next Thursday and Saturday. This is the third system to be tried by the Auckland Trotting Club, 'J he win and plaoe method was instituted in February, 1933, but after 12 months a return was made to the single pool with two dividends in the ratio of 75 per cent and 25 per cent. Win and place was again experimented with at the spring meeting this season, but for the summer carnival the single pool was in force.