MUCH FAVOURED

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 41, 11 May 1927, Page 6

MUCH FAVOURED

ENGLAND AND TOTALISATOR

CAMPAIGN GAINING GROUND MONEY FOR BREEDING Great interest has been aroused in England by the announcement that the Jockey Club has decided to hold an inquiry into the means whereby betting may best be made to contribute to the maintenance of horse-breeding and racing. This step is generally regarded as meaning that the question of establishing officially the totalisator on racecourses is to be seriously considered. Only last month, Mr. Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer. intimated to a deputation of racehorse owners that if at any time the .totalisator were legalised, and became an important feature in racing, those interested in the breeding of blood stock horses could then claim a share in whatever was left over after the Government had taken its due. It is known that for some years pillars of the turf have been anxious to divert some of the profits of betting, which have hitherto gone exclusively to bookmakers, into channels that would do more good to horse-breeding. At the invitation of Mr. Glyn, M.P., fifteen members of the House of Commons, representing training and breeding constituencies, were to meet yesterday to discuss the totalisator, in view of the Jockey Club’s decision to have a committee of inquiry. It is understood that Newmarket alone is opposed to the introduction of the machine. Mr. Glynn has arranged with its Australian inventor to explain the totalisator. “Eighty per cent, of the owners and trainers favour the totalisator.” says Major R. Glyn (Conservative M.P.). “A meeting of my constituents attended by everybody in North Berkshire connected with racing (including 29 trainers), unanimously supported the totalisator, realising that it would increase stakes, reduce entrance fees, and improve the prospects for blood stock breeding,” added Major Glyn.