INTERESTING SUMMARY
1 LOCAL trotting enthusiast has compiled an interesting table showing how the best fancied candidates fare in their various engagements. The computation was made on the basis of the records in the Trotting Register of last season, covering 436 races. Favourites showed up prominently, returning dividends on 331 occasions, made up of 212 firsts and 119 seconds. Second choice candidates returned 137 first dividends and 123 second prices, while the figures for third favourites were 91 and 96 respectively. Fourth selections were successful on 70 and 98 occasions, and then came the following—fifth choice, 58 and 69; sixth, 36 and 56; seventh, 37 and 56; eighth, 27 and 31. The biggest outsider to score a win was sixteenth in order on the machine, while a candidate ranking as twenty-fourth in the list—the lowest quoted—paid a second place dividend.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 361, 23 May 1928, Page 10
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140INTERESTING SUMMARY Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 361, 23 May 1928, Page 10
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