Totalisator Paying Out.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IV, Issue 201, 31 May 1894, Page 3

Totalisator Paying Out.

The following letter from Mr O. Samuel, a prominent member of the Taranaki Jockey. Club, was read at the annnal meeting of that club on Friday night:— The Hon. Sec. Taranaki Jockey Club. Dear Sir, —I have several times brought under the notice of members of the club and persons in the habit of attending race meetings, the question of changing the mode in which totalisator money is divided, and to some extent adopting the system which is in vogue elsewhere of paying on placed horses instead of only on the winner. The suggestion has found favour with nearly everyone to whom I have mentioned it, and I propose to submit it'for

discussion at the annual general meeting to be held on Friday evening. My suggestion is that in future the totalisator money (after the usual deductions) should be paid out on the first and second horses in the proportion of twothirds on the first and one-third on the second. In case of a dead heat the money would be distributed as at present ; and if only two horses are backed on the totalisator the present rule of paving on the winner only would be retained. I have worked out roughly what would have been the results if the rule which I propose had been adopted at our Autumn Meeting, and they would have been as follows :—

First Handicap Hurdles. —Total 331, first horse 82, second horse 101. Dividends paid £3 12s; would have been, first horse £2 Bs, second horse £l. First Handicap Hack Hurdles. —1 otal 398, first horse 185, second horse 82. Dividends paid £ 1 18s ; would have been, first horse £1 ss, second horse £1 Bs. Jockey Club Handicap. —Total 616, first horse 14.0, second horse 143. Dividends paid £3 19s; would have been, first horse £3 7s, second horse £1 4s. First Handicap Hack Race. —Total 551, first horse 183, second horse 40. Dividends paid £2 10s; would have been, first horse £1 16s, second horse £4 3s. Welter Handicap.—Total 180, first horse 81, second Dividends paid £2, would have been, first horse £1 6s, second horse £1 2s.

Hack Scurry. —Total 380, first horse 34, second horse 65. Dividends paid £lO 1, would have been, first horse £6 14s, second horse £1 15s. Flying Handicap. Total 516, first horse 255, second horse 85. Dividends paid, £1 16s, would have been, first horse £1 3s, second horse £1 15s. Grand Stand Handicap. —Total 376, first horse 112, second horse 63. Dividends paid £3, would have been, first horse £2, second horse £1 18s.

Second Handicap Hurdles. —Total 372, first horse 92, second horse 51. Dividends paid on two horses which ran a dead heat.

Second Handicap Hack Hurdles. — Total 449, first horse 29, second horse 159. Dividends paid £l3 18s, would have been, first horse £9 6s, second horse 16s.

Autumn Handicap.—Total 500, first horse 109, second horse 92. Dividends paid £4 2s, would have been, first horse £2 15, second horse £1 12s. Second Handicap Hack Race. —Total 352, first horse 214, second horse 56. Dividends paid £1 9s, would have been first horse 19s, second horse £1 7s. Shorts Handicap — Total 420, first horse 240 ; second horse 50. Dividends paid £1 Ils, would have been first horse £1 Is, second horse £2 10s. Farewell Handicap.—Total 453, first horse 128, second horse 42. Dividends paid £3 3s, would have been first horse £2 2s, second horse £3 4s. In order to bring the subject forward I beg to give notice that at the Annual General Meeting I will move that a subcommittee, consisting of the stewards and the committee, and with power to add to its number, be appointed to consider the expediency of altering the mode of division of totalisator moneys, and that the stewards and the committee be empowered to carry into effect any recommendation which such sub-committee may make.