RICCARTON ADOPTS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 670, 25 January 1933, Page 10

RICCARTON ADOPTS.

Fir®t Trial of Place Tote in South Island. The committee of Canterbury Jockey Club met yesterday afternoon to consider the win and place system of totalisator betting and decided to adopt it for the summer meeting, to be held at Riccarton on Saturday, FebruThis decision was arrived at after the chairman, Mr G. Gould, had reported on the result of his observations of tne working of the system at the recent meeting of the Wellington Racing Club at Trentham. The club will operate only the inside totalisator at the meeting next month. The outside enclosure will be closed and a charge of 2s 6d will be made for admission to the inside enclosure. _ , , No other details have been fixed yet for the running of the totalisator. These will require some consideration and Dr M. G. Louisson, Mr H. A. Rhind and Mr G. Gould were appointed a sub-committee to make the necessary arrangements. .... The win and place system, which has become very popular in other parts of the world, was first tried in the Dominion at the Taranaki Jockey Club’s Christmas meeting and was so great a success that the Stratford Racing Club adopted it a week later. The Wellington Racing Club was induced to adopt it for its recent meeting and the general opinion on its working at Trentham was highly favourable. The opportunity to back a horse straightout for a win was welcomed by many, while the general body ofracegoers appreciated the chance of receiving a dividend on any one of three horses who finished in a place. Others, again, sampled the two machines. They could back a horse to win and could lessen the risk, in case it finished in a place, by insuring the straightout wager. So far the new system has had its only New Zealand trials in the North Island, and the meeting at Riccarton next month will provide South Island racegoers, except the few who were at Trentham, with their first opportunity to sample the change. NEW STIPENDIARY. WELLINGTON, January 24. Mr C. Gomer, who was last week appointed chairman of the stipendiary steward of the Racing Conference, will arrive from Melbourne to take over his new duties on February 7.