“WIN OR PLACE”

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22368, 15 September 1934, Page 10

“WIN OR PLACE”

TO THE EDITOR.

Sir, —Why does not the Dunedin Jockey Club run its business the same as an ordinary trader? Any business trader knows that he cannot fill his shops up with goods which he wants or likes, but that he must stock what the public wants.

The public prefers the 75 per cent, dividends to the winner and 25 to the second horse in preference to the win and place machines, and yet the Dunedin Jockey Club persists, like some other chibs, in giving us the win and place system because, presumably, more money goes through the machine. The win and place may suit Christchurch and Wellington, where a reasonable return can be expected on the place machine, but it is a different story at Wingatui, where form is more exposed than at Trentham and Riccarton.

The president and executive of the D.J.C. can argue and produce figures and endeavour to show that the win and place system is in favour, hut I maintain that the public prefers the first and second dividends only.

Let this question therefore be settled once and for all by a poll at the forthcoming meeting. The D.J.C. would then definitely know what the public wants and would then, I hope, please the public and not the executive only.—l am, etc.. One Bet.

Musselburgh, September 14. [lt is clearly a pure assumption on the part of “One Bet” that the public prefers the system which he advocates.—Eu., O.D.T.]