PUNTERS ASTRAY
UNITED STATES SOLDIERS f "THROWI-XG MONEY AWAY" United States service i>ersonneJ who go to the races in Australia ■are throwing their money away because they do not understand the local patois. In America, on the. totalisator, :they bet for a win (first),, placc • <first or second), or show (first, second or third). In Australia there is only a win (first) or place (first, second or third). So the visitors, hacking a horse - for a place, have been throwing • their tickets away when their fancy ■came in third. One racegoer in Sydney has heen paying his admission and spending his time picking up discarded tickets, paying particular attention to Americans. He told. the. course manager that he has made up to £15 in an afternoon.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 42, 21 January 1944, Page 5
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126PUNTERS ASTRAY Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 42, 21 January 1944, Page 5
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